evidence: - According to barrypopik.com, There is no evidence Lenin ever said this. It more likely comes from a book by Rajani Palme Dutt, Fascism and Social Revolution: A Study of the Economics and Politics of the Last Stages of Capitalism in Decay (1935). This quote was cited as being from Lenin in print in 1968. [...] - A: Lenin thought so. He declared: socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state. [...] - First misattributed to Lenin in this form in 2001 in an antiwar article by George Galloway.