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Victoria C. Woodhull: It is quite true that there is a growing tendency to centralize capital, and that consolidation of monetary interests is…

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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.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She notes the trend of capital centralization but asserts that the root cause lies deeper in societal principles.

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