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The inclusive vision that once drove the labor movement has given way to a guild mentality, at times also among unions, that is smug and parochial.

the cause remained a minority passion, exorbitant, needless, a nursery for epigones

McCarthy's necronautical games seem the more jejune

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If we take the argument a step further, we face the possibility that the humanities are actually countereconomic; the notion of alterity and sympathy, taken seriously, would undo the profit motive and put a fair amount of grit into the workings of economic activity