V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v47; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.

From Lenin to the C.C.

30. IX. 05.

Dear Friends,

1) I am sending you the draft agreement with Malykh for approval by the whole Central Committee.81 I advise you to approve it—otherwise there will be nothing for a crowd of people to live on here, and the Party will be unable to support them (including the editors and contributors of Proletary). This is a serious matter, and I earnestly beg you not to cut it short with a single stroke: otherwise you may provoke a desperate crisis.

2) I advise you to raise the 50% to 100%. Malykh will have to agree.

3) Then make it obligatory for her to submit now, without fail, to the ideological guidance (and not merely control) of the person about whom she must come to an agreement with the C.C. This is quite possible, she will agree, and the importance of this point is enormous in principle, and will be extremely great in practice tomorrow.

4) You are placing both me and especially yourselves in an impossible position before the International Bureau by not appointing a representative to the conference and not sending the promised members of the C.C. here.82 For heaven’s sake, understand that by this you are turning the whole of international Social-Democracy against yourselves. I have already received an inquiry from the International Bureau about the strange silence of the C.C. (I replied that you had agreed in principle to a conference without arbitration, that delegates would soon be sent by you, and that negotiations were proceeding in Russia between the Organising Committee and the C.C.).

It is necessary to give a precise and clear official reply to the International Bureau, otherwise you will compromise yourselves terribly, as if you were trying to evade the issue.83

5) I have lost all hope of your coming. Why did you not write a single word about the loss of Sysoika? Do write whether you have finally abandoned the plan of coming? In general, I have had no news from you about anyone for over a month.

6) Regarding Plekhanov, I am informing you of the rumours here for your guidance. He has clearly become embittered against us for the exposure before the International Bureau. He swears like a cabman in No. 2 of Diary of a Social-Democrat. There is talk of his having a newspaper of his own, and then of his returning to Iskra. Conclusion: distrust of him must be increased.

I press your hand. Reply at least something.

Yours, Lenin