| To: Retort Via: SZ Susanne sends us this piece from Gifford fleshing out the crises in Calfornia, and bearing the epigraph: I should be very much pleased if you could find me something good (meaty) on economic conditions in California…. California is very important for me because nowhere else has the upheaval most shamelessly caused by capitalist centraliza- tion taken place with such speed. —Letter from Karl Marx to Friedrich Sorge, 1880 |