[Marxism] Lenin on the invasion of Poland? (Revolutionary Expansionism through arms?)

[Adam Berg]

I agree. Of course, the primary objective was the protection of the revolutionary regime. And the question of Poland cannot - as you say - be treated apart from this. The invasion of Poland, in this sense, was clearly a defensive measure.

What I would like to know, however, is if there were also voices within the Bolsheviks - as the Lenin quotes I posted before suggest - that argued that this primary objective could be combined with more offensive goals?

So, I'd like to know if there are more quotes similar to Lenin's "probe with bayonets to discover whether the social revolution of the proletariat was ripe in Poland". Either by Lenin himself, Bolsheviks active in this time period, or by the RCP(b).

/Adam

Mark Lause <markalause at gmail.com> wrote: "Poland" as a State was the very recent creation of the 1919 peace
agreements.  In any event, Mongolia might be a better example of a
Soviet offensive strike.

I don't claim expertise in any of this but I question whether these
instances can be treated separate and apart from the Soviet efforts to
defend their borders, against military forces using these desolate
borderlands as staging grounds and bases.

ML

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