Where is this Lenin quote from?

[Dialectical Wizard]

Where is this Lenin quote from?



“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”


I've seen this quote a couple of times before, but I cant find the source.
From which writings of Lenin is this?
There is ofcourse always a possiblity that it's made up or misattributed.

[BIXX]

It is a real quote. I would look in his writings and speeches shortly after the Russian Revolution (because shortly before the revolution he was talking about how he would never see it. Less than a year later he was in one).

Unfortunately I'm not willing to google this for you.

[BolshevikBabe]

Seen it many times before, but never seen a source either. Even Wikiquote doesn't seem to have it listed.

[Dialectical Wizard]

Seen it many times before, but never seen a source either. Even Wikiquote doesn't seem to have it listed.


That's because it's probably a non authentic quote, i've even used MIA's archive search engine(Marxist.org) and i've haven't found any real results.

[BolshevikBabe]

It does sound like the kind of thing that would be made up years later and attributed. Shame because it is a great line.

[Dave B]

It sounds a little bit similar to something he said in his ‘The Chief Task of Our Day’ which was a fairly well circulated pamphlet.





In the space of a few months we passed through a number of stages of collaboration with the bourgeoisie and of shaking off petty-bourgeois illusions, for which other countries have required decades. In the course of a few weeks, having overthrown the bourgeoisie, we crushed its open resistance in civil war.


https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/11.htm




It was translated into English and published by Sylvia Pankhurst's in 1918 and included another article advocating state capitalism which the SPGB traditionally quoted from.






(https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/11.htm)