... / . . - KEYNES, AND INFLATION* For nearly fifty years the story has circulated among economists, journalists, businessmen, and bankers, sometimes in print but even more in oral tradition, that Lenin said that severe inflation was the surest way to destroy capital• ism. A recent reference by Professor Albert Hirschman in Journeys Toward Progress,l refers to "the Lenin dictum that 1 New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1963 • . there is no surer '-18.Y to revolutioniz...