willow: "an aside but the lenin quote is probably a misattribution, tho interestingly marx has a letter where he says something similar"

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willow @dreary.dev

an aside but the lenin quote is probably a misattribution, tho interestingly marx has a letter where he says something similar

Marx in a letter to Engels. London, 9 April 1863

https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1863/letters/63_04_09.htm

Source: MECW, Volume 41, p. 466;
First published: abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in MEGA, Berlin, 1930.

Only your small-minded German philistine who measures world history by the ell and by what he happens to think are 'interesting news items', could regard 20 years as more than a day where major developments of this kind are concerned, though these may be again succeeded by days into which 20 years are compressed.

10 million curses to Lawrence & Wishart btw for enforcing copyright on MECW
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/410.htm

For a few more similar quotes and investigation:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks

March 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM