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Useful Idiots

Originally coined by Vladimir Lenin shortly after the Russian Revolution, it refers to wealthy Westerners who favored the Bolsheviks in their revolution. It is usually followed by "The capitalists will sell us the rope we will use to hang them."

See also Gender Feminists.

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