Comments on: Komrade Kitch http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/11/27/komrade-kitch/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: David T http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/11/27/komrade-kitch/comment-page-1/#comment-3355 David T Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:07:40 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=2095#comment-3355 "Marx wrote that the capitalists would, shortsightedly, sell workers the very ropes from which the bourgeois would hang." Uh, no, he didn't say that. *Lenin* is often quoted as saying it. But according to R. Craig Nation, *Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991*, p. 39, "this cogent phrase, while often cited, may be apocryphal." http://books.google.com/books?id=WK18-OoR0pIC&pg=PA39&sig=dlPGe4VBSDGcA5w34sSjLDKv8Jk “Marx wrote that the capitalists would, shortsightedly, sell workers the very ropes from which the bourgeois would hang.”

Uh, no, he didn’t say that. *Lenin* is often quoted as saying it. But according to R. Craig Nation, *Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991*, p. 39, “this cogent phrase, while often cited, may be apocryphal.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=WK18-OoR0pIC&pg=PA39&sig=dlPGe4VBSDGcA5w34sSjLDKv8Jk

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