Rebecca Solnit wrote in Salon.com that “The Age of Capitalism is over”. Oh my, where to start? At the beginning seems a good place as any. Solnit was thrilled to hold a land auction notice from post-Jacobin France—Thermidorian France for the historically-minded. Thermidorian France was no more compassionate to live (mostly, to die) in than the Jacobin version which oversaw the execution of tens of thousand civilians, and the wanton destruction of anything associated with Christianity. This short period in France’s mottled past, from 1795 to 1799, abolished everything other than the whims of its leaders. And this sent...