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Fascism was initially a species of what the scholar Michael Mann called leftist nonmaterialism.
U.S. News 2010
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Her values were classic liberal values of fairness, justice, nonmaterialism, and tolerance, which were in contrast with the xenophobic paranoia of the decade (Richard Hofstadter's classic essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" was written in response to the political movements in the decade).
PopMatters 2010
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The turn to big business has stirred some grousing from die-hard fans in Internet chat rooms, who say it goes against the grain of a singer who preached nonmaterialism and popularized the Rastafarian credo of oneness with nature and marijuana consumption as a sacrament.
unknown title 2009
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