Quote Origin: The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them

Saw this on Twitter earlier, and it reminded me of the following quote that’s attributed to Vladimir Lenin.

Quote Origin: The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them

Soviet dissident and propagandist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn also attributed it to Lenin.

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During the heyday of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the CIA began to realize that the Russian revolution’s promises of social equality had won over many Western European artists, writers, scientists.

In 1950, the CIA set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom with a goal of undermining the Soviet government and winning over the hearts and minds of Europe’s left-leaning intellectuals.

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Personal post: 04-30-2024

I’ve uploaded a few video clips to my Rumble. Otherwise, I haven’t been doing many. This following video I found on Reddit.

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Earlier today, I finished listening to Capital, Vol. 1. I’m definitely going to have to read the book, as I did fall asleep during a couple of chapters. Bad me, I know. It’s been hard for me to listen to audiobooks, anymore, because I’ve been falling asleep to a YouTube playlist for the past few years.

Anyway, I’m tired, and I am going to take a cat nap. Good night!

Quotes by Lenin to reflect on and some updates

I needed some inspiration.

The more democratic the system of government is, the clearer it will be to the workers that the root of the evil is not the lack of rights, but capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin

Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society

Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

Updates:

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