V. I.

Lenin

To:   L. B. KAMENEV

Dear L. B., I received both letters and the article. In my opinion the latter
should be shortened. I shall try to make the cuts, though I don’t know how
successful they will be.

I shall wait for the article on international solidarity of the
proletariat (I have a circular letter of the International Socialist Bureau
on the subject; I am not sending it, for it is already late). Let Grigory
know about it.

What is this that the papers have been saying about Sokolov? It is of great
interest to me, for I was going to write about the elections in
St. Petersburg. I read in
Rech [1] that the Social-Democrats are nominating
Sokolov. Write in detail what “fables” you have read about, and send the
issues over.

I read the reviews in Vozrozhdeniye and Sovremenny Mir . [2]

About returning to Paris Grigory writes that lie will arrive by
September 4. I will not be back before September 15. As regards your
question whether you should go, I can only say this: if you have had a
proper rest, it would be good to go, start a Proletary club at once, deliver two lectures (popular ones) to workers on Potresov’s
liquidationism and another about the “Lefts” to Bolsheviks, and then
arrange for a lecture tour to groups abroad in late September
(roughly). This you must do.

It will be interesting to discuss the Mensheviks and Prokopovich and
Kuskova when we meet. It is necessary to hit as hard as possible at
Potresov’s liquidationism both in articles and lectures. We are a bit late
with this.

All the best.

P.S. People write from Russia that things are not so good
there. Davydov has been arrested. It will be necessary to push on here with
agitation abroad.

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Notes:
[1]
Rech (Speech)—a daily, the Central Organ of the
Constitutional-Democratic Party, founded in St. Petersburg on February 23
(March 8), 1906, and closed by the Revolutionary Military Committee of the
Petrograd Soviet on October 26 (November 8), 1917. It continued publication
until August 1918 as Nasha Rech (Our Speech), Svobodnaya Rech (Free Speech), Vek (The Age), Novaya Rech (New
Speech), and Nash Vek (Our Age).

[2]
A reference to reviews of Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism in the journal Vozrozhdeniye No. 7–8, May
1909, and Sovremenny Mir for July 1909, signed respectively
“A.—ov” (A. I. Avraamov) and “Orthodox” (Lyubov Axelrod).

Vozrozhdeniye (Regeneration)—a journal published legally by
the Menshevik liquidators from December 1908 to July 1910 in Moscow.