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Where did you see that insinuation? Can you point me to the place where you saw the conclusion about socialism? I feel like you are reading way too much into it. Why attribute something the authors didn't intend?

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The article on sugar production is one example that I'd agree upon with OP.

"If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation."

"Why doesn't the United States have universal health care? The answer begins with policies enacted after the Civil War."

That seems like quite a stretch: neither of those is a global statement, simply an accurate summary of how the culture in one particular country developed. Most countries with universal healthcare are capitalist to a large degree so it seems pretty clear that an explanation for the difference between, say, the U.S. and Canada is going to have a different answer than “capitalism!”.

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