"Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us. The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control."
Terry Eagleton

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 10, p. 236

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