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Victoria C. Woodhull: “In a true condition of society there would be no such thing as wealth, in its present signification.”

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In a true condition of society there would be no such thing as wealth, in its present signification.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull envisions a society where wealth, as currently understood, does not exist.

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