Capitalists Will Sell The Rope To Hang Themselves

A common quote often attributed to joseph stalin karl marx or vladimir lenin goes somewhere along the lines of the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we hang them with. When time comes to hang the capitalists the capitalists themselves will sell the rope for that in 1961 the miami news of florida printed a letter to the editor containing an interesting variant expression in which communists sell the rope instead of buying it. 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.