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Human Rights Watch has documented Iran’s crackdown on women violating the compulsory law to wear the hijab.

“I was actually pretty upset,” Mosley said of the phone call, noting that the compulsory law in Arizona only applies to students age six and over.

From Salon

We have seen that the ever-increasing perfectibility of modern machinery is, by the anarchy of social production, turned into a compulsory law that forces the individual industrial capitalist always to improve his machinery always to increase its productive force.

The bare possibility of extending the field of production is transformed for him into a similar compulsory law.

It is the compelling force of anarchy in social production that turns the limitless perfectibility of machinery under modern industry into a compulsory law by which every individual industrial capitalist must perfect his machinery more and more, under penalty of ruin.

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