V. I.

Lenin

242

To:   L. B. KAMENEV

Dear L. B., I received today from Trotsky an invitation to “their” conference (on
August 25). [2]

So they have organised it after all!

We, of course, are not going.

We want to have the Central Organ two-thirds ready, so as to issue a
reply ... [1] as soon as their announcement comes out.

We shall begin sending in copy to the C.O. tomorrow.

See to it that the material is set up quickly and proofs corrected
properly.

Why doesn’t Antonov (Britman) answer me? Is he in Paris? In good
health?

Write when you propose to set out for Chemnitz. A paper should be
prepared for the Germans in advance.

Why do you return the letters ... and don’t give us an answer about the
Pannekoek article....

Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Manuscript partly damaged. Here and further several words
illegible.— Ed .

[2]
A reference to the so-called August conference of the liquidators held
in Vienna in August 1912. The anti-Party August bloc organised by Trotsky
was formed there. For more on the August conference of the liquidators see
present edition, Vol. 18, Note 109.