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Re: Demand destruction (4.00 / 2)
JakeS:
a school of thought that believes in motivating the poor to either revolution or docile slavery by making their lives as miserable as humanly possible
You mean like neoliberals who advocate paying people less so thay will work more?

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 11th, 2010 at 04:45:58 AM EST
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