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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Even in this demonstration it is conclusively shown that the productive capacity of the country is the real measure of…”

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Even in this demonstration it is conclusively shown that the productive capacity of the country is the real measure of value, and that, finally, no matter how irrelevant the process of wealth and prices may have been to it, it is the power which ultimately measures all values.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull asserts that the productive capacity of a nation is the true measure of value, regardless of wealth or prices.

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