"We know that an unskilled labourer or a cook cannot immediately get on with the job of state administration."
— Vladimir Lenin

January 1, 1970

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Will the Bolsheviks Retain Government Power? (1917); this is often misquoted as "every cook must learn to govern the state" or even "every cook can govern the state."