Capitalism, the absurd system a view from the United States

Monthly Review

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-16

  McChesney, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 77953919334     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-062-02-2010-06_1     Document Type: Article

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1. See http://merriam-webster.com/ netdict/absurd; http://merriam-webster. com/netdict/capitalism;http://dictionary. cambridge.org/dictionary/british/ capitalism. Entry for capitalism is based on a combination of Merriam Webster Online and Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, using the latter for the actual definition.
2. Fredric Jameson, "The Future of the City,' Hew Left Review 21, second series (May-June 2003), 76.
3. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (London: Penguin Books, 2006), 38-39.
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20. Frederick Douglass, Life and Writings, vol. 2. (New York: International Publishers, 1950), 437.
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