http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/nov/05.htm
"When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world. This would be the most "just" and most educational way of utilising gold for the benefit of these generations which have not forgotten how, for the sake of gold, ten million men were killed and thirty million maimed in the "great war for freedom", the war of 1914-18, the war that was waged to decide the great question of which peace was the worst, that of Brest or that of Versailles; and how, for the sake of this same gold, they certainly intend to kill twenty million men and to maim sixty million in a war, say, in 1925, or 1928, between, say, Japan and the U.S.A., or between Britain and the U.S.A., or something like that."
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:49 AM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Thomas More says something similar in Utopia no?
>
> He says that the inhabitants of Utopia are contemptuous of precious metals and jewels, which are used for children's toys.
>
> The thought there is that the more valuable human relations become, the less valuable the petrified signifiers of those relations become.
>
> joanna
>
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> Did Lenin actually say this?
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> "When we are victorious on a world-wide scale, we will make public toilets out of gold on the streets of the world's largest cities."
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