Red Plenty ends with Nikita Khrushchev pacing outside his dacha, to where he has been forcibly retired. “Paradise,” he exclaims, “is a place where people want to end up, not a place they run from. What kind of socialism is that? What kind of shit is that, when you have to keep people in chains? What kind of social order? What kind of paradise?”
There are people in Venezuela asking that question right now. I wish more people in the United States would.
The article is making the case that neoliberal capitalism is headed to exactly the same place as communism.
Of course what the alternative would be they don’t say.
The people of the USA have got their answer: DJT.