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Article: All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism.
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- Community Action
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- May 13, 2002
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Linda McQuaig takes another well-reasoned side-swipe at the current political and economic reality of Canada and, by extension, much of the rest of the western post-industrial world. As with her two previous books - Shooting the Hippo and The Cult of Impotence, McQuaig employs an easily accessible, journalistic style of writing to attempt to come to grips with some of the main issues, challenging those who are in any way interested in creating a reasonably equitable society or, at least, hanging on to the post World War Two vestiges of a society where there was an overall sense of responsibility for the quality of life of all its citizens.
The basic thesis in ...