>5 Jan 2004 15:37:03 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>>>Is it nice Alex to slap down the mouth(s) that >compliments you
>>>with the word *crazies*? No. That's just bad manners that is.
>>
>>Real revolutionaries don't care about manners! You must be hard and cold.
>>Doug
>
>Which manual did that come from? Hari
One instance, from V.I.:
At 10:38 AM -0800 12/23/03, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> Lionel Trilling in, "The Liberal Imaginstion, " quotes this from
>Comrade Lenin.
>
> "I know of nothing more beautiful than the Appassionata, I could
>hear it every day. It is marvellous, unearthly music. Every time I
>hear these notes, I think with pride and perhaps childlike naivete,
>that it is wonderful what man can accomplish. But I cannot listen to
>music often, it affects my nerves. I want to say amiable stupidities
>and stroke the heads of the people who can create such beauty in a
>filthy hell. But today is not the time to stroke people's heads;
>today hands descend to split skulls open, split them open
>ruthlessly, although opposition to all violence is our ultimate
>ideal-it is a hellishly hard task."
>
>Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, quoted in Maxim Gorky, Days with Lenin
>http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/archives20031214.shtml