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John Dewey: “Politics thus tends to become just another “business”: the especial concern of bosses and the managers of the machine.”

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Politics thus tends to become just another “business”: the especial concern of bosses and the managers of the machine.
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John Dewey

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Dewey critiques the commercialization of politics, likening it to a business dominated by elites.

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