Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

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• Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

  

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