• Express [any,none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      No that’s even better because you know they are not quote mining and they actually remembered it.

      • longhorn617 [any]
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        4 years ago

        "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

        --V.I. Lenin (allegedly)

        • superdoctorman [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Wait, I thought the master's tools couldn't be used to dismantle the master's house?

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            The master's tools in this case are electoralism. The rope in the above mentioned analogy refer to the weapons that can be used to create power parallel to "the master's tools" as I understand it.

  • Kereru [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Hasn’t Varoufakis talked about an organised people’s investment fund to turn financial instruments against the elite? This probably isn’t quite what he was imagining ...

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I remember reading an article like two years ago talking about financial socialism or something that was basically this - I can't find it now but it didn't really have any good prescriptions beyond "idk, make a co-op?"