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Strong, expropriative measures are needed to stifle the feudal impulse.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservative Magazines Not For Liberty 2009
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A true free enterprise system would, of course, use expropriative levels of taxation to cull excess wealth, which can only be used to the detriment of the entire system.
The Root of All Evil 2008
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He accepted the syndicalist theory of the general strike insofar as it was insurrectional and expropriative, in fact, insofar as it was an effective means of social transformation.
ANARCHISM ARTHUR LEHNING 1968
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This demand is stimulated by the ever-increasing precariousness in the position of the middle classes (the smaller manufacturers and traders, independent artisans, farmers, etc.) since there have come into existence expropriative capitalism on the grand scale, on the one hand, and the organized working classes on the other -- for both these movements, whether they wish it or not, combine to injure the middle classes.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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