[DUMBGRUNT]

I enjoyed the quote but was curious about it.

And found a fun provenance.

Still a KEEPER!
And better with a bit of underlying form.

‘The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation’.

https://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/04/15/fake-quote-files-v-i-lenin-on-inflation-and-taxation/

[Vaquero]

But who the heck is DANIEL BIER. (I don’t trust snopes, why the heck should I trust Bier?)

Easy to dismiss a quote as being misquoted. Perhaps translation from Russian can be interpreted in slightly different ways. Bourgeois and Middle Class is in my mind (and most people’s minds) interchangeably. Also a quote by someone like Lenin is probably repeated many times on the Marxist soapbox he lived to spout crap from. People tend to say the same things in slightly different ways each time but leave the meaning the same.

Here Is a source for Lenin or anyone of import.

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/vladimir_lenin#pLlfVc14WQvTtbdr.99

[Vaquero]