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Victoria C. Woodhull: “It is this principle which has made it thus long possible for government to be conducted entirely in the interests of…”

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It is this principle which has made it thus long possible for government to be conducted entirely in the interests of capital.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull critiques how government operates primarily in the interests of capital, highlighting systemic inequality.

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