Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Quote

Quote from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,

"Hundreds of thousands of rouble notes are being issued daily by our treasury. This is done, not in order to ﬁll the coffers of the State with practically worthless paper, but with the deliberate intention of destroying the value of money as a means of payment. ...

Experience has taught us it is impossible to root out the evils of capitalism merely by conﬁscation and expropriation… The simplest way to exterminate the very spirit of capitalism is therefore to ﬂood the country with notes of a high face-value without financial guarantees of any sort. …[T]he great illusion of the value and power of money, on which the capitalist state is based will have been definitely destroyed."

By:	Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (more quotes by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin or books by/about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
	[Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] (1870-1924) First Leader of the Soviet Union
Source:	an interview with Lenin published in the Daily Chronicle and the New York Times on April 23, 1919.
Categories:	Capitalism, Communism, Confiscation, Corruption, Inflation, Money
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