V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48; en:CW/CW34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

14. XI. 10.

Dear A. M., It is ages since we had any news from you and M. F. I am pining for news from Capri. What is the matter? Surely you don’t keep count of letters as some people, they say, keep count of calls.

Everything is the same here. A heap of petty affairs and all sorts of unpleasantnesses connected with the struggle of the various “appanages” inside the Party. Brrr!... It must be nice on Capri, though...

As a rest from squabbling we have taken up the old plan of publishing Rabochaya Gazeta.

We collected 400 francs with difficulty. Yesterday No. 1¹ came out at last. I am sending it to you together with a leaflet and a subscription form. All members of the Capri-Naples colony who sympathise with this undertaking (and with the “rapprochement” between the Bolsheviks and Plekhanov) are invited to give every support. Rabochaya Gazeta is needed, and no good can come of working with Trotsky, who is intriguing in favour of the liquidators and the recallist-vperyodists. Plekhanov and I already protested vigorously in Copenhagen against Trotsky’s most scurvy article in Vorwärts. And what a vile thing he printed in Die Neue Zeit about the historical meaning of the struggle among the Russian Social-Democrats!² Have you seen Lunacharsky’s article in the Belgian Le Peuple?³

We are starting a small legal journal to combat Nasha Zarya and Zhizn,⁴ also with Plekhanov’s participation. We hope to bring out No. 1 soon.⁵

That’s how things are with us. Little by little, quietly, with difficulty, but still we are getting out of the squabbling and on to the right road.

What is new with you? Did you write to Stroyev and what answer did you get? We wrote him a first letter “to establish contact”, he received it and replied that he did not understand who was writing. We wrote again. He is silent. There is a devilish shortage of people, and the old ones have scattered.

We had almost arranged to publish a weekly newspaper in St. Petersburg jointly with the Duma group (the local Mensheviks, fortunately, are leaning not towards the liquidators but towards Plekhanov), but the thing has been held up again, the devil knows why.⁶

Write and tell me how you are getting on. Are you working well? Is anything coming of the journal you spoke about in the summer? How are things with Znaniye?⁷

I have a right to be angry with M. F. She promised to write. Nothing. She promised to find out about the Paris library on the history of the Russian revolution. Nothing. That’s not nice.

I press your hand.

Yours, Lenin

P.S. Tria’s report will probably be published after all. The Editorial Board of the Central Organ⁸ has decided that.

Oh, what squabbling there is in that Editorial Board, it’s unbearable...

(Italy)