“The driving force in the world economy is fast becoming a global confederation of productive vanguards. The vanguards established in different parts of the world drive one another forward. They trade with one another. They transfer personnel, technology, and organizational practices among themselves. Above all, they emulate one another.”

— Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Source: Democracy Realizedː The Progressive Alternative (1998), p. 32

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Brazilian philosopher and politician 1947

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