Lenin today

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Mar 24 16:37:01 PST 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


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>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> A bit from Michael Tomasky's review of David Brock's new book in this
>> week's Nation: "Of parties at the home of archconservative fomenter
>> Grover Norquist, who hung a portrait on his living room wall an
>> doften quoted Vladimir Ilyich's dictum to 'probe with bayonets,
>> looking for weakness'.... "
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>Could you identify where Lenin said this. I've never seen it before,
>either in Lenin or in discussions of Lenin?

I have no idea. I thought it was interesting that the nutty right in the U.S. takes inspiration from Lenin. The accuracy of the quote is beyond my expertise, and probably that of Tomasky, Brock, and Norquist as well.

Doug



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