Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, responding to accusations that she is a Marxist and has been concealing much of her economic agenda from the public, gave a speech at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh on September 25 attempting to reassure voters that her earlier proposals for price controls, debt cancellations, and consumer subsidies, as well as her new proposals are not a Bolshevik assault on capitalism, but are intended to create an “opportunity economy” for the benefit of the American middle class. She affirmed “Look, I’m a capitalist, I believe in a free and fair market” and went on to specify three “pillars” of how she intends to confer the blessings of “opportunity” on market actors. Harris spelled out a basic principle underlying her proposals as:I believe an active partnership
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