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I read an excerpt recently from a speech by Australian Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson where he dismissies high level manipulative conspiracies and seems to end up blaming the Labour movement in Australia for the country's current Social state:

How could we be so bereft of solutions today when these negligent thinkers and trustees in the academies and the bureaucracies who most benefited from the welfare state that was created from the sweat and organisation of working people, have had a century to anticipate our current predicament and to prepare us for this day - at the least prepared with understanding? ... Those of us who wish for social progress must realise that there are important insights in the materialist interpretation of our history and our culture, which the labour movement unfortunately left behind...


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