“It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

Lenin᾿s Collected Works, Vol. 2, pp. 491–534
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