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Comrade, Your Portfolio Is Lovely — Now Get On The Truck

History's communist states had a surprisingly efficient system for dealing with humanities graduates: they sent them to do something useful. A darkly instructive tour through what the Soviet Union, Maoist China, and Castro's Cuba actually did with their surplus of creative souls — and what it means for anyone currently recording a podcast about decolonizing their moisturizer routine.