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A different version of this essay this originally appeared on my website several years back.

In 1891, inspired after reading the works of early anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde wrote an essay called “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” in which he argued that humans expend far too much of their energy and intelligence tr…

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