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non-violent) forms of political mobilization and action. Although history has
not yet encountered such a demand on a global scale, it is worth recalling that
the political difficulties of abolishing slavery (now achieved in many countries)
and implementing maximum hours of work (now regulated in most of the
industrialized world) were also once thought to be insurmountable.
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