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It is real-life class struggle, informed no doubt by ideas, that ultimately determines which way the world will move.

— Prabhat Patnaik

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Once class struggle, for changing the system in its present form, acquires momentum, its outcome would depend on praxis and may not necessarily remain bounded within the system itself.

Finance capital, in other words, does not voluntarily make concessions even when such concessions are seen by major pro-capitalist thinkers as being essential for the preservation of the system itself.

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