V. I. Lenin

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

DEAR L. B.,

Can you get hold of the latest issues of *Neue Zeit* containing the articles by Pannekoek and Kautsky?

If not, drop a line and we will send them. It is necessary to know them before Chemnitz and to find Pannekoek there and get in touch with him: Kautsky has replied to him on the most important questions in an arch-opportunist manner. It is extremely desirable to get in touch with the Lefts (especially Pannekoek, who is now abetting Tyszka’s vulgar “game”) and to agitate among them for a principled rebuff to Kautsky. It will be a scandal if they do not rise against such opportunism! Unfortunately, they have no people: Radek is almost a big shot with them...*

For *Pravda* you ought to write popular articles (in the tone of *Rabochaya Gazeta*), literary-critical articles. If you write in the tone of *Rabochaya Gazeta*...
they will print them. Otherwise... it’s a scandal: Dnevnitsky has left, and we have lost the literary-critical section in *Zvezda*!! and it is also needed in *Pravda*.

Do you have *Zavety*? 108 Could you send me Ropshin for a time? I would like to write about him for the Central Organ.

Are you writing for *Prosveshcheniye*? Hurry up!

(I saw in a German newspaper that there are few lodgings in Chemnitz and that one must apply in advance to the Wohnungsausschuss.** — (Faites attention!***).)

I shake your hand. Yours, Lenin

* The manuscript of the document is partially destroyed. Here and below several words are illegible. Ed.
** — housing committee. Ed.
*** — Pay attention! Ed.

P.S. So, you will come to us after Chemnitz. C’est entendu*, if... special circumstances do not
prompt us to call you here before Chemnitz. Let us know in advance whether you are going to Switzerland, when, where, and for how long.

P.P.S. I am sending Gorky’s letter, part of which is of general interest. Return it.