“At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.”

— Lewis H. Lapham

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 4, The Romance of Crime, p. 87

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American journalist 1935

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