V. I.

Lenin

TO G. V. PLEKHANOV

November 17, 1912

Dear Comrade, I have just sent you a telegram about our agreement
to the combination which you decided upon with
Rubanovich.

We ask you to lay before the commission, [3] by way of information, our shade of opinion , too, if we happen to
differ with you on the following point.

Kautsky’s article in No. 6 of Neue Zeit , after the October
session of the
I.S.B., [4] is obviously the official opinion of the Germans, the Austrians and others. We do not
accept the main point of the article (S. 191–92, from the
words “ Dabei müssen ” [1] to “ heischenden Massen ” [2]
in particular ). [5]

With Kautsky it turns out to be a pledge against a revolutionary mass strike. This is inadmissible both from
the Russian standpoint (there are 100,000 political strikers
now in St. Petersburg, with revolutionary meetings and sympathies for the sailors’ mutiny ) and from the general
European standpoint. However, you know our point of view from our writings, and I hope you will not object to
having a talk with Comrade Kamenev.

Comrade Kamenev is our delegate to the I.S.B. (M.
Rosenfeld, 11. Rue Roli. 11. Paris XIV).

Please cable him if you are not going, and if you are, please see him before the commission at Basle (M.
Rosenfeld. Poste Restante, Bâle ).

If you don’t go for some reason, please send your vote in writing for the election (of Rubanovich or Kamenev) to
the commission.

Respectfully yours,
N. Lenin

Wl. Uljanow. 47. Lubomirskiego. Autriche. Krakau.