ADAM SMITH, PREACHER OF CLASS WARFARE

The great prophet of capitalism was not blind to the realities of society. In his Wealth of Nations, he saw clearly what Marx did 50 years later:

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.
B.V, Ch.1, Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth, 45