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   "text": "The centuries long tension between socialist and capitalist principles for organizing society has itself undermined societal goals for the betterment of humanity, because society forms power structures and political hierarchies that serve the competing ideologies.",
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   "text": "Decentralization is the antidote to the failures of both socialism and capitalism: centralized coordination of societal and economic activity, in whichever ideological form, should be held to a minimum in order to free human potential and improve society.",
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   "text": "Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for organizing society, because exclusive reliance on a single legal document combined with widespread voter apathy makes the constitutional model appear to be the only lasting form of organization.",
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