V. I.

Lenin

89

To:   KARL KAUTSKY

Geneva, October 10, 1904

Dear Comrade, I am sending you by book-post my article which should serve as a reply
to Comrade Rosa Luxemburg’s attacks. [1]

I am aware that the sympathies of the editors of Neue Zeit [2] are with my opponents, but I believe it would be only fair
to grant me the right to correct some of the inaccuracies in Rosa
Luxemburg’s articles. My article has been translated by Comrade Lidin. You
have already printed one of his articles, hence you can judge of his
knowledge of the

German language. I myself cannot write in German. I have made my article
very brief; I wanted it to take up less space than Rosa Luxemburg’s, and
not to be too lengthy for Neue Zeit . If nevertheless you find it
too long, I am prepared to cut it again to the desired length. At the same
time I must insist that no cuts be made without my consent.

Kindly let me know if the Editorial Board accepts the article or not.

With Social-Democratic greetings,

N. Lenin

My address:

Vl. Oulianoff
3. Rue David Dufour. 3.

Genf. Genève, Suisse.

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Notes:
[1]
See “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Reply by N. Lenin to Rosa
Luxemburg” (present edition, Vol  7, pp. 474–85).— Ed .

[2]
Die Neue Zeit —a theoretical journal of the German
Social-Democratic Party, published in Stuttgart from 1883 to 1923. Until
October 1917 it was edited by Karl Kautsky and then by Heinrich Cunow.