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Society

September 30, 2018
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When they have got over the delirium of the television, when they realise that their new homes that they have been put into are mortgaged to the hilt, when they realise that the moneylender has been elevated to the highest position in the land, when they realise that [this] is a vulgar society of which no decent person could be proud and that this society is unable to exploit the resources of their scientists because they are prevented by the greed of their capitalism from doing so, they will find that the challenge of modern society can only be met by socialism – that, in fact, we represent the future.

Nye Bevan
September 13, 2018
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There’s no question about it: the corporate conservatives and their allies in the political and religious right are achieving a vast transformation of American life that only they understand because they are its advocates, its architects, and its beneficiaries, in creating the greatest economic inequality in the advanced world. They have saddled our nation, our states, and our cities and counties with structural deficits that will last until our children’s children are ready for retirement and they are systematically stripping government of all its functions except rewarding the rich and waging war.

Bill Moyers
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