A lie told often enough becomes the truth
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
I suspect Vladimir is more widely read in Broadcasting House (The BBC) than Hayek, Rand, Mises, Bastiat, Friedman and Popper added together
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Thank you for this quotation. I would be grateful if you could cite the source and context.
Sadly, of the six others you named, most people would only recognize Friedman’s name, if that. And among even the better read in the media, I would only add Rand as recognizable. I wonder how many have actually read either of them, much less the other four. I haven’t read much Popper or Bastiat. Time for some holiday shopping.
So no one else sees any irony in the fact that this quotation has been falsely attributed to Lenin through, er, repetition?
I’ve also seen this quote attributed to Goerring and Hitler.
If this is a false quotation attributed to Lenin… then that actually makes the point more eloquently than I ever thought possible!
This will probably sound stupid, but was Popper a libertarian (or some proto-libertarian)? I’ve only seen some of his brilliant work on the epistemology of science. What were his main political / economic works?