this wd be a wonderful quotation to have. i wonder if mao wd have made
such a remark.
At 11:32 AM 3/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Comrades:
>
>I was recently asked whether the remark supposedly made by Lenin - namely,
>that if he had had 10 Francis of Assisis, there would have been no need of
>a Russian Revolution to improve life in Russia - is apocryphal or
>historically verifiable. Does anyone have a text to cite - or even a
>passage from a biography (or even a hagiography!) of Lenin - to which I
>might direct my inquisitive questioner???
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael Cusato, O.F.M.
>
>
Richard Landes
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