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Misattributed quotes — Vladimir Lenin

1870–1924 Russia

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We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

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Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.

Misattributed Fabricated quote from The Voluntary Way is the American Way (1949)

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen.

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Practice is the criterion of truth.

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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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First, we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States which will be the last bastion of capitalism. We will not have to attack. It will fall like an overripe fruit into our hands.

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By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vladimir Lenin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.