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"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only..." — A. J. P. Taylor

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
A. J. P. Taylor
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