V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v47; en:CW/CW34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear Mark,

I am sending you my reply to the Capri people* for Lyova. If he thinks it necessary, let him make a copy for Inok, and then send the letter to Capri—I don’t know the address. I think it can be sent in two envelopes: on the outer one write: Signor Massimo Gorki. Villa Blaesus. Capri. Italie, and on the inner one: For the Executive Commission of the school.

I don’t know any other address.

As for Trotsky, I must say that I shall be most resolutely opposed to giving him any assistance if he rejects (and he has already rejected!) the equality on the editorial board proposed to him by a member of the C.C. Without a decision on this question by the Executive Commission of the B.C., no steps to assist Trotsky are permissible. Therefore, the Business Commission may agree to the printing of *Pravda* in the *Proletary* printing plant only if it is not assistance to a new faction (for Trotsky is founding a new faction, whereas the C.C. member Bek proposed to him instead that he join the Party)—but a strictly commercial transaction, for payment, as with anyone else, on condition that the compositors are free, etc. I most emphatically insist that the question of our attitude to *Pravda* has yet to be decided by the Executive Commission of the B.C., and that not a single step of assistance must be taken before that decision, and we must not commit ourselves in any way.

I shake your hand.  
N. Lenin

P.S. Please have a copy made of my letter to the Capri people in any case. It may be needed for the B.C.

To Paris

* See previous letter. —Ed.