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Victoria C. Woodhull: One of the principal of these is a false monetary basis, a false representative standard of values, which is arbitrarily…

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One of the principal of these is a false monetary basis, a false representative standard of values, which is arbitrarily imposed upon the people, with no positive and absolute value within itself, except that which such arbitrary law gives it.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull critiques the arbitrary monetary standards imposed on society that lack intrinsic value.

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