>I'm not challenging the quote particularly. I'd just like to run down
>its source if available. There are quite a few 'quotes' from Lenin,
>including one or two that I particularly like, that I've never seen
>cited to a specific source in Lenin.
Don't know about the specific quote, but for "probing with bayonets", according to the "Manifesto of the International Leninist Current", posted at <http://www.ngy1.1st.ne.jp/~ieg/left-org/europe/ilc/manifeste.html> there's this...
*** "In September 1920, during the Ninth Conference of the Bolshevik party, Lenin had no hesitations in justifying such an attempt by stating that: "...we must probe with bayonets to discover whether the social revolution of the proletariat was ripe in Poland." ["The International Significance of the War with Poland", in Al Richardson (ed.), In Defence of the Russian Revolution. A Selection of Bolshevik Writings 1917-1923, p. 141.] ***
Haven't got a copy of Richardson, though, to check the reference.
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