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Adam Smith quote (hexbear.net)
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[โ€“] purpleworm@hexbear.net 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He also quotes this passage specifically in an affirming manner, I think.

[โ€“] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Indeed, reading Smith and then Marx is basically the equivalent of learning Newtonian mechanics then learning about GR. I'm sure Smith would probably agree with Marx on a lot of things, since Marx had the benefit of decades of development of the mercantile system that Smith was investigating.