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- YouTube Short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyiheDDEfk

Episode 2 of Marx in the Machine, a Brain Candy x Financial Candy special series from ClaraNarratio. 'Dueling Manifestos' puts Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto beside Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto to ask why the SpaceX/SPCX market story sounds less like a stock pitch and more like a theory of history. Investors did not merely buy rockets; they bought a manifesto with a ticker symbol.

- Read Brief: https://app.claranarratio.com/api/library/audio/creator/artifacts/ep_1783220113603/companion-brief.md

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