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final note--more social-democratic version of capitalism came about because the actors--including the elites--thought that stabilizing the system as a whole by trying to reduce inequalities was in the long-term interest of the system as a whole. it was capitalism with a human face--it is interesting to note that this position presupposed at least a glancing acquaintance with the central fact of capitalist reality--that it is a social system, not a series of abstract, empty markets......and that capitalism produced class stratification.
for this viewpoint--hell from any viewpoint that considers capitalism in reality, not some blinkered right substitute--what the american right advocates is totally self-defeating on their own grounds in the longer run.
on this, the situation with health care in the states is symptomatic.
if you really look, you have to see the human costs.
of course, it is better to think about money.
incomprehensible......
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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