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Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

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Terry Eagleton
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 22
Literary Critic
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Salford
Greater Manchester
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