V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear Comrade Varga,

I am ill. I am absolutely unable to undertake any work.

If you compile a collection (of quotations from my works or from parts of them), I, of course, have nothing against it, but you must name yourself as responsible for the selection.

My request:

1) to quote more fully my works of the spring of 1918 against the “Lefts”, on “state capitalism” and on the difficulties of administration as a specific task;

2) the pamphlet against “Left-Wing” Communism (general rules of tactics and strategy) (to quote more fully)*;

NB 3) never to quote my speeches (their text is always bad, always inaccurately reported); to quote only my writings.

With best greetings, yours, Lenin

P.S. I cannot promise an afterword either. You will name yourself as responsible for the selection of quotations. 334