“Genuine growth is always dialogical — it requires engagement in a dynamic, developing, and open-ended dialogue.”

Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 7, Freedom Song, p. 231

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Canadian political scientist 1953

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