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Michael Parenti Quotes: It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
         

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.


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