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“To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.”

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C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills was an American sociologist known for his research on power structures and social conflict. His work emphasized the impact of social structures on individual lives and introduced the concept of 'the sociological imagination'. more

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