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Ed Markey: It just seems like, you know, you can't have it both ways. You can't believe in Darwinian capitalism on the one hand…

On the recordSeptember 10, 2012
It just seems like, you know, you can't have it both ways. You can't believe in Darwinian capitalism on the one hand, and then over here say, 'No, we want a Socialist system,' and then within the Socialist system say, 'Now we don't have to improve,' because obviously they are falling behind where there is capitalism.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey critiques the inconsistency in economic beliefs regarding capitalism and socialism.

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