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Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes: We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
         

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.


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