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My speech at the Schumacher Lectures: “If you don’t like capitalism or state socialism, what do you want?” »

On Democracy Now!

By admin | Published: December 17, 2011

I had the pleasure of discussing my New York Times Op-Ed on Democracy Now! (transcript available here):

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