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"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin by John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920, reprinted 1971), p. 235. Keynes says, "Lenin is said to have declared …" Despite careful searching by the European Division of the Library of Congress, this has not been found in Lenin's writings and remains Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

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Attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin by John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920, reprinted 1971), p. 235. Keynes says, "Lenin is said to have declared …" Despite careful searching by the European Division of the Library of Congress, this has not been found in Lenin's writings and remains Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).