"The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational."

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Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.37, Princeton University Press

Robert Gilpin

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