"Capitalists wil sell us the rope..." (Lenin?)

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I can't find this in the Yale Book of Quotations. It's discussed right now  
on Little Green Footballs. A quick check shows a 1955 citation on  
NewspaperArchive.
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_http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24920_Globe_Op-Ed-_Talk_to_the_
Muslim_Brotherhood#comments_ 
(http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24920_Globe_Op-Ed-_Talk_to_the_Muslim_Brotherhood#comments) 
Stalin famously said, “When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the  
rope we use.” (Or maybe it was _Lenin_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot) .)
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COMMENTS
Actually it was Lenin who said "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with  
which we will hang them."
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_They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and  Misleading 
Attributions - Page 64_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0195064690&id=NCOEYJ0q-DUC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&ots=hzRxXBDWHz&dq=lenin+rope+capitalists&ie=ISO-8859-1&s
ig=5EgtwveipeYXBYWXpOcuAptpcxY) 
by Paul F. Boller - 1990
113  CAPITALISTS-SELL-ROPE QUOTE "The capitalists will sell us  the rope with 
which 
to hang them." There may be truth in the  much-quoted remark that Lenin is ...
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29 March 1955, Tri City Herald (Pasco, Kennewick, Richland,  Washington), pg. 
4:
_U.S. Providing Reds With Rope To Hang West_
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_Lenin Sneers_
_Of Old_
_May Come True_



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