Buying and Selling

According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization.

Dr. Leete Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy

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Context: Dr. Leete explains why the new society abolished trade between individuals.

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Source: Chapter 9

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