"In order for capitalism to have a clear path, it needs to profane all that is sacred; there must be no limits to what is saleable. The totalitarian commercialism which is now the established Church throughout the West has come close to achieving this."
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Andrew Collier (philosopher)
1944 – 2014
Andrew Collier (1944 - 2014) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton.
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