"The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism."
— Contradiction

January 1, 1970

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Mikhail Gorbachev, in Eamonn Butler The Best Book on the Market: How to stop worrying and love the free economy, John Wiley & Sons, 21-Jul-2009, p. 105.