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Corporate globalization and the economic agreements designed to entrench it have little to do with trade — and all but the most ignorant neo-liberal pundits surely know this too.

— David McNally Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

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In short, the rules of behaviour in capitalist society systematically produce irrational consequences.

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