The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

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A source trail connects this quotation to Albert Einstein and Essays in Humanism, but the exact English wording has not been confirmed in a primary text. The attribution is therefore probable rather than definitive.

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