Reply To: Extinction Rebellion
It certainly wasn’t Marx and doesn’t seem to have been Lenin either:
Did anyone actually say “the capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with”?
by inAskHistorians
It seems to be a favourite “quote” of US antie-cahmunists because it associates communism (and socialism) with wanting to hang capitalists. It even appears as a quote from Stalin as “when we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use” but that’s probably a fabrication too (it doesn’t even make grammatical or logical sense),