Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

As the Texaco letter made clear, Stanford University was in a zero-sum struggle against the Cuban people—as well as the Guatemalan people, the Iranian people, and the people anywhere Stanford donors owned stuff, which was a lot of places. In that fight, Baran was proudly on the wrong side. The middle-aged Harvard-trained economists dedicated Monopoly Capital in six letters: “For Che.”