Capitalism and Marxism are two sides of the same coin, both ideologies justify elite social control, however, they differ significantly in how…
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I have come to the conclusion that human beings have evolved in such a way that most are born with the capacity…
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A spectre haunts the left. It is the ghost of Karl Marx and the suffocating presence of the archaic ideology which bears…
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