Jetex_Jim,
"And you justify this assertion exactly how?"
Well, you see, the very basis of Marxist-Leninist theory was that capitalism was a self destructive force and that eventually pressures of capital and consumerism, allied to inflation and taxation, would deliver the capitalist world into the communists arms. All they had to do was wait.
As history showed, the exact opposite occurred.
So, Lenin's claim that he would take the capitalists rope they sold him and hang them with it, was simply wrong.