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Capitalism: What Is It?

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Is the Welfare State a Palliative to the Soviet Style Transition?

Had there never been a Soviet Union, you would have still had the welfare state in the West. There are two fundamental sources that shaped the 20th century: labor movement and decolonization. The Eastern Bloc provided a lot of weapons to help many countries break free from their formal colonial masters.

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