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"In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists."
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"I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority."
"It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential."
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