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Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.

Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.
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The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.
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