他辩称说，过分拥挤的城市是建立在“自私”和“贪婪”基础上的制度造成的。

He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity."

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20世纪70年代初，苏联开始在价格调整上给予企业和工业一些与资本主义制度一致的灵活性，这是一种更为非正式的演变。

In the early 1970's, the Soviet Union began to give firms and industries some of the flexibility in adjusting prices that a more informal evolution has accorded the capitalist system.

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实际上，这个制度本来应该可行。

Basically the system ought to have worked.

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That at the base of all societies there has to be a labor system that will support the possibility of Plato.

在所有社会的基础上,必须有一个劳动制度,一个能供柏拉图施展他才华的制度

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That's not what the American constitution is about, but it was what the Greek constitutions were about.

美国宪法并非如此,但希腊史上的宪法制度却是如此的

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There are various arrangements, social arrangements, that can be just or unjust to varying degrees.

存在各种不同的制度,社会制度,它们在不同程度上是正义的或不正义的

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