<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Lenin today</title></head><body> <div>Carrol wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I'm not challenging the quote particularly. I'd just like to run down</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>its source if available. There are quite a few 'quotes' from Lenin,<br> including one or two that I particularly like, that I've never seen</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>cited to a specific source in Lenin.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>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<span ></span>/europe/ilc/manifeste.html> there's this...</div> <div><br></div> <div><font color="#000000">***</font></div> <div><font color="#000000">"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.),<i> In Defence of the Russian Revolution. A Selection of Bolshevik Writings 1917-1923</i>, p. 141.]</font></div> <div><font color="#000000">***</font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font color="#000000">Haven't got a copy of Richardson, though, to check the reference.</font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font color="#000000">Chris</font></div> <div>-- <br> <br> Phone: +44 (0) 1865-286793<br> Email: <chris.brooke@magd.ox.ac.uk><br> Web: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1368<br> </div> </body> </html>