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Is the West Bust?
Accompanied by the steady drumbeat of bankruptcies and bailouts, by whoops of schadenfreude-fuelled gloating, a catastrophist consensus is forming: capitalism as we know it is done for. Moreover, the civilisation that has depended on capitalism is being written off by ingrates who never understood either but were in reality the beneficiaries of both. Everywhere the message is the same: this time, the West is bust.
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