Ur Fire On The Mountain av Terry Bisson 1942 – 2024

"'No Paris Commune? No English Civil War? No Russian, no Egyptian revolution?'
  'I'm telling you. Socialism exists, but only as a threat. The world is basically ruled by the same people who built the railroads and the textile mills–British and then Merican capital. For a hundred years. And on into the future, until the end.'
  Harriet shivered and threw another stick onto the fire. 'That's why I don't like science fiction. It's always junk like that. I'll take the real world, thanks.'"
ur Fire on the mountain av Terry Bisson