Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Lenin Introduced the Famous Phrase "Who, Whom?" During the Early Years of Soviet Rule

I believe it was Lenin himself who introduced to Russia the famous phrase “who, whom?”—during the early years of Soviet rule the byword in which the people summed up the universal problem of a socialist society. Who plans whom, who directs and dominates whom, who assigns to other people their station in life, and who is to have his due allotted by others? These become necessarily the central issues to be decided solely by the supreme power.

--F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents; The Definitive Edition, vol. 2 of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, ed. Bruce Caldwell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 138-139.

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