A review by zachcarter
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Marv Waterstone, Noam Chomsky

3.0

This is a solid collection of lectures from Chomsky and Waterstone. On the Chomsky side, it's a word-for-word regurgitation of his talks/writings from the past 50 years. He found a cadence and structure that he likes and he seldom swaps out a single word lol. It gets a little tiring because I can predict almost 100% of the sentences that are about to come up. Waterstone's lectures were more interesting, probably just because I'm not as familiar with his work. As it relates to capitalism's counterpart - socialism - I felt this pretty lacking. There's a good distillation of Capital vol 1 by Waterstone. But when socialist states were brought up (Soviet Union, Cuba, China, etc), they were often done with derogatory intent. Whether it's calling every single one of them 'state capitalism' or spreading nonsense about China's social credit system, the pair are much more compelling when they're running through the history of U.S. aggression or the development of the political regime in the U.S.

For a relatively new leftie, this could be informative and generally positive. But for a more seasoned reader of history/leftist scholarship, it's just ok.