Lenin today From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> 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'.... "
Could you identify where Lenin said this. I've never seen it before, either in Lenin or in discussions of Lenin?
Carrol
^^^^^^^^
CB: I think it was actually that Lenin used to say that he used this as brief way of reminding himself of how the archconservatives and reactionaries operate.