V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v47; en:CW/CW43;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

3) For my part, I consider it my duty to inform the Bureau that Citizen Bebel, some time before the Third Congress, had already made a similar proposal to me and my like-minded comrades, offering us his services or the services of the entire Executive of the German Party (Parteivorstand) as arbitrator in the dispute between the majority and the minority of our Party.

I replied that a Party Congress was soon to be held and that I personally could not decide for the Party or on its behalf.

The Bureau of Committees of the Majority rejected Citizen Bebel’s proposal. The Third Congress took no decision on this proposal and thereby expressed its tacit endorsement of the B.C.M.’s reply.

4) Since the International Bureau considers it possible to obtain information from “certain German newspapers,” I am compelled to state that almost all the German socialist newspapers, and especially *Die Neue Zeit* 52 and the *Leipziger Volkszeitung*, are wholly on the side of the “minority” and present our affairs in a very one-sided and incorrect light. Kautsky, for example, also calls himself impartial, yet in reality he has gone so far as to refuse to publish in *Die Neue Zeit* a refutation of an article by Rosa Luxemburg in which she defended disorganisation in the Party. 53 In the *Leipziger Volkszeitung* Kautsky even advised against distributing the German pamphlet containing a translation of the resolutions of the Third Congress!! After this it is not difficult to understand why many comrades in Russia are inclined to regard German Social-Democracy as partial and extremely prejudiced on the question of the split in the ranks of Russian Social-Democracy.

Accept, dear comrades, our fraternal greetings.

Vladimir Ulyanov (N. Lenin)