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libre-échange m (usually uncountable, plural libres-échanges)
- free trade
- Karl Marx (1848) “Discours sur la question du libre-échange [Speech on the Question of Free Trade]”, in Marxists Internet Archive; English translation from Mark/Engels Collected Works, volume 6, 1976, page 465
Mais en général, de nos jours, le système protecteur est conservateur, tandis que le système du libre-échange est destructeur. Il dissout les anciennes nationalités et pousse à l’extrême l’antagonisme entre la bourgeoisie et le prolétariat. En un mot, le système de la liberté commerciale hâte la révolution sociale. C’est seulement dans ce sens révolutionnaire, Messieurs, que je vote en faveur du libre-échange.- But, generally speaking, the Protective system in these days is conservative, while the Free Trade system works destructively. It breaks up old nationalities and carries antagonism of proletariat and bourgeoisie to the uttermost point. In a word, hastens the Social Revolution. In this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, I am in favor of Free Trade.
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