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November 5, 2012 02:18 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/K8YSmpwlazQ/monopoly-was-stolen-and-perver.html
Monopoly was stolen from socialist land-reformers and perverted
Christopher Ketcham's beautifully written Harper's feature on the history of Monopoly, "Monopoly Is Theft," traces the idealistic socialist land-reformers who created the game and modified it over decades, and the unscrupulous "inventor" who claimed to have created it and sold it to Parker Brothers. Monopoly's forerunner was "The Landlord's Game," created by Lizzie Magie, inspired [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/K8YSmpwlazQ/monopoly-was-stolen-and-perver.html
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