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If Allowed To Run Free Of The Social System, Capitalism Will Attempt To Corrupt And Undermine Democracy, Which Is After All Not A Natural State.
-John Ralston Saul
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If Allowed To Run Free
John Ralston Saul
If Allowed To Run Free Of The Social System, Capitalism Will Attempt To Corrupt And Undermine Democracy, Which Is After All Not A Natural State.
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