Joel Kotkin
By Joel Kotkin
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News The death of small business is a tragedy for Jewish community and democracy
“Small-scale commercial production is, every moment of every day, giving birth spontaneously to capitalism and the bourgeoisie…wherever there is small business and freedom of trade, capitalism appears.”— V.I. Lenin A great connoisseur as well as sworn enemy of the free market, Vladimir Lenin might smile a bit if he witnessed what is now happening to…
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Culture California: Made in Germany, by Jews
California has always been different from every other place not only in America, but also in the world. The Golden State’s human landscape has been as spectacularly varied as its natural one, a unique blending of dreamers, strivers, crackpots and hustlers. Perhaps nowhere is this historical divergence more notable than in the history of California’s…
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