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3 years agoFantastic show. Worker alienation, worker organizing, billionaire cult etc. Last episode is one of the best season finale I have ever seen in any TV show.
BTW, the protagonist, when at work, is called Mark S, or together Marks/Marx. I mean, it can’t get any more obvious than that, can it?
Don’t need a book. I lived through the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia myself. People absolutely took everything good in socialism for granted and thought they were going to keep it, while also getting the capitalist treats as well. What followed was a nightmare of transition to crony capitalism, mixed in with a war. As a kid, I was also “hoodwinked” by the western media, but realised something was off with the whole narrative of wonderful capitalism, when I traveled abroad and was shocked to see so many homeless people and people going through garbage…something I haven’t ever seen in socialist Yugoslavia. Soon after the transition, garbage scavengers became a regular thing and now it’s all just a bunch of failed sorry states and ruined societies, staying barely afloat, mostly because of the achievements of the past socialist governments.