It is quite true that there is a growing tendency to centralize capital, and that consolidation of monetary interests is the rule; but the fault of this does not lie in capital or capitalists—it is farther back than it or they.
She notes the trend of capital centralization but asserts that the root cause lies deeper in societal principles.
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