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Flat White

On Labor’s Heraclitus: the fragments of socialism

There is no socialist solution to Australia's economy

17 February 2023

4:00 AM

17 February 2023

4:00 AM

My copy of The Fragments of Heraclitus translates his most famous line as: ‘Into the same river we both step and do not step. We both are and are not.’ We are all part of the economic system of capitalism, but we do not all agree on the role of government in the economy.

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