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- What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a…
- To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.…
- Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was…
- It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today…
- To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they…
- It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of…
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