“Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of the soul — religion and business.”

Essays in Persuasion (1931), A Short View of Russia (1925)
Context: Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of the soul — religion and business. We are shocked because the religion is new, and contemptuous because the business, being subordinated to the religion instead of the other way round, is highly inefficient.

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