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Noam Chomsky Quotes: That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
         

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.


Noam Chomsky
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