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kentuck

(113,652 posts) Tue Apr 29, 2025, 09:57 AM Tuesday

A quote by Lenin:

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

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A quote by Lenin: (Original Post) kentuck Tuesday OP

Under capitalism, people with poor eyesight have to pay money just to see. Shell_Seas Tuesday #1

Probably not from Lenin. WhiskeyGrinder Tuesday #2

Adam Smith, the father of Capitalism said multigraincracker Tuesday #3

Shell_Seas

(3,519 posts)

1. Under capitalism, people with poor eyesight have to pay money just to see.

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Tue Apr 29, 2025, 09:58 AM

Tuesday

WhiskeyGrinder

(24,768 posts)

2. Probably not from Lenin.

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Tue Apr 29, 2025, 10:03 AM

Tuesday

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/02/22/rope/

The earliest strong match located by QI appeared in 1955 within a periodical called “The Commonwealth: Official Journal of the Commonwealth Club of California”. The club is a non-profit public affairs organization. The quotation appeared as a filler item. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:1

Lenin wrote, “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”
—Major George Racey Jordan

Jordan was a U.S. military officer who became a fierce anti-communist. Lenin had died in 1924; hence, the 1955 date was quite late. No documentary source was specified, and multiple researchers have been unable to find a match in Lenin’s writings. The Congressional Research Service did report a thematically pertinent passage ascribed to Lenin. Details are given further below.

multigraincracker

(35,556 posts)

3. Adam Smith, the father of Capitalism said

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Tue Apr 29, 2025, 10:37 AM

Tuesday

“Businesses must be regulated to prevent monopolies”.

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