V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — K. RADEK
IN LEIPZIG
30.IX.10. [Paris]

Dear Comrade! * Forgive me for being late in replying to both your letters. I returned to Paris only the day before yesterday,1 so I could not answer earlier.

As for the article for the Central Organ on the resolution of the Copenhagen Congress concerning disarmament, the article has already been commissioned (still in Copenhagen) and written by another contributor. Unfortunately, your proposal came too late.

As to your article appearing in the next issue, I must talk it over with Narsky and the other co-editor. I shall do this.2 Regarding your leading articles in the *Leipziger Volkszeitung*, I must say that the question is very interesting, but I have given little attention to it and it seems to me that theoretically you are not quite right. The criterion of “what is unrealisable within the framework of capitalism” cannot be understood to mean that the bourgeoisie will not allow it, that it cannot be carried out, and so forth. In this sense, very many demands of our minimum programme are “unrealisable”, and yet they are obligatory.

Further, in mentioning the address of the International, you omit in the quotation Marx’s words about the principles of relations between states. Is this not a “minimum programme” in international politics? And, finally, why do you not say a word about Engels’s “Kann Europa abrüsten?” 3

You are quite right, in my opinion (all this is my personal view, of course), that it is impossible to omit the demand for arming the people. Would it not be more correct to concentrate the attack not on the fact that *Abrüstung* stands in the resolution, but on the fact that *Volkswehr* does not stand in it? 4

I want to reply to Martov and Trotsky in *Neue Zeit*.5 I have already written to Kautsky and asked him whether he will publish it and what length it should be. A reply must also be given in the *Leipziger Volkszeitung*, of course.

I shake your hand
Yours, Lenin