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- noun Plural form of
parasitism .
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This: first eliminate parasitisms — the parasitism of the priest, of the judge, of the soldier.
Inside the Revolutionary Mind, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One which believes that the arts and the intellect are useless parasitisms upon upright society- that he who does not suffer and toil, produce and reproduce, is unfit for the world.
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