| WHY YOU SHOULD BE A SOCIALIST Nathan J. Robinson New York: All Points Books, December 2019 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-250-20086-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-250-20086-5 | 326pp. | HC/GSI | $27.99 | |
| Page 24: | "Alright, enough harrumphing and dithering! Let's get ready to become socialists together!" |
| Usage: S/B "All right". |
| Page 31: | "I cannot accept this notion of just deserts." |
| Despite the spelling that today denotes arid land, this is correct. See 'Just Deserts' or 'Just Desserts'? See also page 117. |
| Page 41: | "Seahorses are astonishing creatures indeed. This is not just because the males give birth, or they don't have stomachs, or they're the slowest swimmers in the sea, or that they can consume 3,000 shrimp a day...8:22 PM 3/5/2020" |
| Misleading: S/B "brine shrimp". There is a big difference between brine shrimp and the shrimp species familiar to most humans. |
| Page 158: | "Alright, but here I'm going to encounter the inevitable objection: this isn't socialism!" |
| Usage: S/B "All right". |
| Page 170: | "...and Bernie Sanders is one of the sole politicians who seem to be presenting real-world solutions to that problem." |
| Usage: S/B "one of the few politicians". |
| Page 254: | "This makes a lot of people I know feel hopeless and uncertain. They see people with no qualifications except wealth being put in charge, and they see Jeff Bezos building his giant clock in the desert while his workers pee in bottles because they can't take bathroom breaks.." |
| Undocumented: The endnote for this refers only to the clock. A search turned up evidence that Amazon workers in the UK are denied bathroom breaks. (Shannon Liao, The Verge, 16 April 2018) Amazon denies this. (Benjamin Fearnow, Newsweek, 16 April 2018). In the U.S., OSHA regulations demand that all workers have prompt access to clean restrooms. Amazon tells Sanders and Warren that warehouse workers can pee whenever they want (Jason Del Rey, Vox, 24 February 2020) |
| Page 11: | "This was the first successful Southern filibuster of a federal civil rights bill: a cherished tradition begins." |
| Verb tense: S/B "began" since the action described took place in the past. |
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