It
has been more than a century since socialist writer Upton Sinclair
wrote " The Jungle ". Has the American immigrant experience changed
that much since ? I suspect both Tsarnaev brothers, Dzhokhar and
Tamerlan have a lot in common with Sinclair's Lithuanian immigrant
Jurgis Rudkus:broken dreams of SUCCESS and PROSPERITY in the New World.
At the end of " The Jungle " Jurgis finds " community and purpose " in the then vibrant socialist movement. But Dzhokar and Tamerlan could only find the fanatical extremist ideas of a great world religion gone berserk in certain parts of the world.
At the end of " The Jungle " Jurgis finds " community and purpose " in the then vibrant socialist movement. But Dzhokar and Tamerlan could only find the fanatical extremist ideas of a great world religion gone berserk in certain parts of the world.
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