Lenin was too busy hanging peasants to be able to get around to hanging any capitalists. -- David L Rosenthal
Mmmmm, that sounds very familiar
David are you sure he hanged peasants I thought that was Stalin
-- Robert, Sarasota
From what I have been reading, Lenin got the ball rolling, with the inspired creation of the Article 58 conditions that allowed the Soviets to imprison, exile, or execute practically anyone for practically anything. Of course, Stalin made the snowball grow bigger as the Soviet Union rolled downhill. If Lenin had not died so soon, he would have done as well as Stalin did after him. It was not just peasants; they did screw many peasants, but they got around to all kinds of people, including socialists. They were equal opportunity psychopaths. -- David L Rosenthal
-- Mike, Norwalk
And one of the problems with totalitarian regiemes is that they can't even make their own rope. -- EGL, LA
Cars, TVs, food, clothing, etc. ... brought to you by ??? CAPITALISTS -- Everyone is out to make a buck. That's capitalism! -- Joe, Rochester, MI
Heck... the capitalists have sold King George the rope with which he is hanging us all... give me a Commie any day over a traitor fool like King George... better the devil you know than the "friend" who stabs you in your back while kissing your baby. -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
Well, if communist nations like China end up holding a significant share of US bonds and currency then America has truly sold the USA out. Explain to me why America should be the biggest debtor nation instead of the the most propserous free nation on Earth? This quote is too true. -- E Archer, NYC
In answer to E Archer: Just because the country is going broke does not mean those controlling it are. Would they aid in the destruction of the U.S. for their own personal fortune? You betchya! This is one of the few quotes by a communist that rings true. -- JC, Queens, NY
The present day Chinese, with their hybrid of a Quasi-Capitalist Economy and a Centralized Communist Regime are a perfect modern embodiment of Lenin's famous quote. "The Capitalist will sell us the Rope that we will hang them with."
In essence, American corporations thirst for cheap labor and American consumers with their insatiable demand for Chinese imports, are in fact funding the growth of the Chinese Military. When their first Chinese Super Carrier sails into San Diego Bay, it will be the first War Ship funded by Wal-Mart.
The Chinese have patience and very long views of their goals and destiny. Americans live in the moment.
One of those philosophies is going to prevail. -- Pablo Navarro, Bellingham, Wa.
I believe that totalitarian regime called Nazi Germany had ( with the exception of ABomb) the most advanced technology. Ballistic Missiles, First Jet Fighters, Best Tanks, etc. etc. The problem was the political philosophy that dictated how and when to use them.
Oh yes, I seem to recall that the other totalitarian regime, The Soviet Union, was the first to Orbit satellites and a Man, but as above the flaw was in how to utilize those advances without always having to fit into a Doctrine. -- Matt, Des Moines
The American consumer does not have insatiable demand for cheap chinese goods, US Corporations have insatiable demands for higher and higher profits. That is why shoes manufactureed for $14 in China sell for $135.00 US Retail. That is not cheap. US corporations want near zero labor costs and through Chinese slave labor, they get it. -- Bob, Columbus, OH
Socialism sucks. Always. -- Bob, Seaford, DE
We all know where Lenin and the Soviet Union ended up now don't we? Ron Reagan broke the back of communism and won the cold war with CAPITALISM! We out spent the Soviets in nukes and pushed them into bankruptcy. HOWEVER, rarely have democracies survived beyond 200 years. Why do democracies fail? Two of the major reasons are: 1) democracies generally progress through an initial period from bondage to spiritual faith escalating to the point where the citizens become totally dependent on the government to where they eventually revert back to bondage, and 2) once the democracy shows signs of prosperity, citizens vote themselves generous bounties from the public treasury. Does this not sound familiar? -- Shawn M, Columbus, OH
Lenin was simply terrorist who get the power over Russian by killing people aroung those days parlement and temporarily government. What kind of statemens you can expect from brutal killer? Petr -- Anonymous, Prague
Take from the rich distribute to the poor. Robin Hood economy. Sounds good to me. Screw Stalin for perverting communism into a poor, totalitarian dictatorship with horrible human rights. At least he took hitler down. -- anonymous, San Francisco
It is important to examine global capitalism as a historic system instead of the pseudo science status it is given in the Western world. When, in the 600 year history has capitalism provided full employment? An end to homelessness? Poverty? An equitable relationship between the material and the manufactured good? It never has and it never will. That is the view point from which a true Leninst or Trotskyist critiques capitalism. No war between nations. No peace between classes. -- David, Las Vegas, NV
Full employment and homelessness is a pipe dream thought up by liberals. A) In any given population there will always be losers and drug addicts B) Not everyone can be the chief, we need some indians too. There has to be someone willing to push a broom at the local High School and there always will be. -- Shawn M, Columbus, OH
Fannie, Freddie, Sterns, Aig = Rope
. Progressives, liberals, socialists, facists, commies and nazis all start with the same fundamental utopian view of how to make up the world and that road always leads to tyranny. They con the public into believing in their idiotic beliefs in how they can make government fix all problems only to make those problems worse and you give up a piece of your freedom for every solution they come up with. -- Scott F, mpls MN
The U.S.Government has embarked on two pieces of social engineering in the last
few years. One was to make oil expensive-- as expensive as possible-- to drive
people to greater use of alternative energy sources, supposedly, to protect the
environment. The other was to enshrine home ownership (i.e., easy-to-obtain
mortgages) as a new American right -- because anything less would be unequal and
racist.
None of us voted on these decisions. Nevertheless, both became national policy.
Both have sparked national, now international, crises, not to mention other
related catastrophies for the "little" people, like higher food prices via
ethanol (notably corn tortillas, a staple for the poor in Mexico, thus adding to
the pressure on our border). Then, once they became crises, both were blamed on
‘greedy capitalism’, instead of what they really were: legislative interference
into market forces.
With government run health care coming up, we are about to buy full-table-in to
a Soviet-style command economy. In the meantime, the Russians are aggressively doing the opposite. Pitiful irony. It
didn't even take a generation for the Boomers to thus squander the sacrifices of
their parents, The Greatest Generation, both Democrats and Republicans, in their
heroic winning of the Cold War. Indeed, "The Capitalists will sell us the rope
with which we will hang them." (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870 - 1924, First Leader
of the Soviet Union)
I think we should halt that hangman by voting conservative across the ticket.
-- Rick Stacy, Architect, El Dorado Hills
This is actually a quote from the communist manifesto by Marx and Engles -- Comrade Freedom, Paterson, NJ 1st city of America
Hey egl, la where did you learn to spell? Have the capatilists not sold the rope to the Chinese for the sake of short term profit. Lenin said the surest way to destroy a nation is to debach its currency. Have you looked at the value of our dollar lately? The US dollar was once the the standard the world invested with. Most large multinational investments are now done in EUROS. The USA is bankrupt and heading for its well deserved third world status. We cannot compete in the world market but maybe we can find use for our military by invading some other weak nation. The kids coming from our inner city schools can barely read but at least they can be tought to oppress others. -- joesef fitzgerald, manchester
I'm a little confused. Because of our dependancy on China for the goods we are buying off them to keep our economy going, it is like we are buying the rope from the communists that we will use to hang ourselves. I love the quote I just need simpler terms please. Help -- David V., Normal,Il.
-- Anonymous
-- Jeanne Ringeisen, Vero Beach, Fl.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Quote:
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
This quote is very apt today.
Free trade with Communist China? - SUICIDAL AND FOOLISH.
We are already seeing high unemployment in our manufacturing industries that have been given to the Communist Chinese by our treacherous governments kow-towing to BIG BUSINESS, Multi-National Corporations seeking cheap labour world wide. These countries also have poor human rights records and poor environmental records. No wonder their products are cheap! They are not forced to operate under the same strict rules that our governments impose on us in the West.
-- Unemployed Factory Worker, OSHAWA
Never was fond of commies anyhow. -- Tim Berg, Landskrona, Sweden
I'm sure old Vladdie is spinning in his grave given the recent rise of China as an industrial power and supplier of manufactured goods to the world. In his wildest dreams, Lenin could never imagine that we would first set up the rope factory in a communist country! -- MK, Santa Ana, CA
-- thomas, Ringwood
-- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
-- Jeanne Ringeisen, Vero Beach, Fl.
