A quote I have just discovered:
"Corrupt the young. Get them away from religion. Encourage interest in sex. Make them superficial by focusing their attention on sports, sensual entertainments and other trivialities. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible. Encourage government extravagance, destroy its credit. Produce fear with rising prices, inflation and general discontent. Encourage disorders and foster a lenient attitude towards disorders. By specious argument cause the break down of moral virtues: Honesty, sobriety, self restraint. Cause registration of fire arms to leave the population defenseless"
Is this something that was actually said, supposedly around 1912? This seems a little on the nose, and I seem to be unable to find a scholarly source confirming it. I'm not much of a history buff, though, so I'm not sure what sources are reliable and what aren't.
While more can always be said, and it’s hard to prove a negative, there’s no evidence of this list published before 1946. It seems to have been published in the UK then made its way into American right wing circles like the John Birch Society in the 1960s. It’s a pretty common way of attacking enemies: make the qualities of the thing you oppose (modern liberal society) conflated with those of a group already unpopular (Soviets). But your instincts that is too on the nose seem right, there’s nothing evidence Lenin ever said this and it’s a popular late twentieth century chain message.
Source: Boller. Paul F., Jr., and John George. They Never Said It. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989 (p. 114-116).