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• We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
• On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the…
• Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.…
• The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.
• The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been…
• What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue…
• A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the…
• Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.
• What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used…
• An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with…
• But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by…
• That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

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