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“The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.” quote by Ernest Mandel — Download Open image

“The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.”

Ernest Mandel

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