The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, a…

Henry Hazlitt
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The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.
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