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Victoria C. Woodhull: This is a matter of most serious import, which is tending to a despotism more intolerable than that exercised by any of…

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This is a matter of most serious import, which is tending to a despotism more intolerable than that exercised by any of the monarchies of the Old World—the despotism of capital over labor.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She warns that the growing power of capital could lead to a form of despotism worse than monarchies.

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