[tsomer]

Western businessman will sell us the rope.

This is off the topic, but didn't Lenin say "a capitalist will try to sell you the rope you hang him with?"

Regardless who said it, it's axiomatic.

[general_re]

This is off the topic, but didn't Lenin say "a capitalist will try to sell you the rope you hang him with?"

Entirely possible, but I've always seen some variant of this attributed to K. Who knows? ;)