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To-day the industrial-property régime being established, the doctrine is the intellectual bulwark of the standpatter and reactionary.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “To-day the industrial-property régime being established, the doctrine is the intellectual bulwark of the standpatter and…”
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Dewey critiques how the doctrine of Individualism has become a defense for maintaining the status quo in industrial relations.
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