Don't we learn from history?

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Who said.....

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credit until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the state will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism."

Answer..... Karl Marx in his Das Kapital (1867).

The only problem is, it seems, that this "quote" is as phony as it is fascinating.

How do I know that?

The following link goes to a full and unexpurgated translated version of Das Kapital that you can download (if you have the time and the inclination):

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm%20%3Chttp://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm%3E

I know the top photo isn't Karl either - (it's Uncle Joe) - but it's the only one of the right genre that I've taken on my travels.

Here is one of KM (that I didn't take).,