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Can you identify who wrote it: Adam Smith or Karl Marx?

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By pursuing [the worker's] his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in a single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Capitalist production develops technology only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the laborer.
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition... is so powerful a principle that it is alone ... capable of carrying on the society...
Until now, every form of society has been based on the struggle between the oppressing and oppressed classes.
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest...
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
I do not like money; money is the reason we fight.

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