Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a mud…

Walter Lippmann
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1960). A Preface to Morals, p.250, Transaction Publishers
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1960). A Preface to Morals, p.250, Transaction Publishers

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