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Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone: Consequences of Capitalism (Paperback, 2021, Haymarket Books) 4 stars

Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents …

oof, editing matters

2 stars

While this contains a strong critique of capitalism's powerful media, state, and military control in disregarding and exploiting labor and the environment, with a more than capable blend of 19-20c history and more recent conflicts and protest - as a book it is hard to recommend as these are straight lecture transcripts from two older men with all the rambling and "but I'll get to that in a moment" that format engenders. Read some Chomsky, but probably not this one.