• @General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    812 months ago

    The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

    ― Vladimir Ilich Lenin


    This comment is not legal advice.

    • Omega
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      142 months ago

      Sell the people torches and pitchforks, which they promptly use to stab and char you. As they say, sell them shovels in a gold rush.

      • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        132 months ago

        Except today, it would be a shovel that is designed to break at around 100 uses so that you have to come back to buy a new shovel every few days or so.

      • @Lumiluz@slrpnk.net
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        41 month ago

        Nah see, the trick is to first convince the buyers other average people are the enemy. Double the sales, none of the consequences.

    • @errer@lemmy.world
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      92 months ago

      Great quote, gotta keep that one in pocket for when this “hypocrisy” is pointed out every few days

    • @klao@sh.itjust.works
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      51 month ago

      I think the earliest documented version of this quote (1955 October 31, The Commonwealth: Official Journal of the Commonwealth Club of California) is more intriguing:

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

      —Major George Racey Jordan