The Great Evasion: An Essay on the Contemporary Relevance of Karl Marx and on the Wisdom of Admitting the Heretic Into the Dialogue about America's FutureQuadrangle Books, 1964 - 189 pages |
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... defined achievement so narrowly in terms of economic scarcity that we pushed the far more vital issue into the background . Economic suc- cess became the definition of life . And it is here , in connection with the scarcity of ...
... defined achievement so narrowly in terms of economic scarcity that we pushed the far more vital issue into the background . Economic suc- cess became the definition of life . And it is here , in connection with the scarcity of ...
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... defined the egoistic part of man in terms of possessive individualism and competitive marketplace economics created another soft spot in their system . This is by no means the only way in which that half of man can be defined ; but once ...
... defined the egoistic part of man in terms of possessive individualism and competitive marketplace economics created another soft spot in their system . This is by no means the only way in which that half of man can be defined ; but once ...
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... defined in a loose and general way as an institutional ar- rangement for providing increasing access to a greater range of ma- terial goods and services . And that is precisely the primary way that the principles of capitalism do define ...
... defined in a loose and general way as an institutional ar- rangement for providing increasing access to a greater range of ma- terial goods and services . And that is precisely the primary way that the principles of capitalism do define ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
THREE Increasing Misery | 56 |
Economic Misery | 72 |
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