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Contrary to liberal myth, Smith was not an apologist for capitalists. He argued in fact, that capitalists always seek "to deceive and oppress the public" by conspiring to inflate their prices and profits.

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To make history — to change the actual course of world events — is intoxicating, inspiring, and life-transforming. David McNally (born 1953) is a Marxist theorist and is a Professor of political science at York University in Toronto, and chair of the university's political science department.

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