V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW43; ru:PSS/v48;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

My presence would only increase such a tendency tenfold, for I am incapable of conversing peacefully (as you do) either with Haase or about Haase. You know that perfectly well!

But the whole point is that the “scales” are not decided at all by this, not before the Bureau, not at the conference, but by the real relation of forces. We have six curial workers
in the Social-Democratic group on the question of Yagello—six and six; today Malinovsky writes: “we have 6 curial + 4 liquidators + 2 waverers. The Siberians have not yet arrived.”

We are mobilising this six, which represents the proletariat of St. Petersburg, Moscow
and the South, and we shall fight against the slanders and intrigues of Tyszka + Rosa + Ryazanov and others...

That is where the serious “scales” are! You know that, don’t you? Why then “domestic scenes”
when the struggle is not so very easy as it is??

“The Germans will take offence... become embittered”... That is already a fact. And we shall send a protest that the Germans gave money to the OC. Let them become embittered. They are a party now. We must inevitably fight the Germans and have begun this with (a) the “Anonymous” + (b) Chemnitz. Haase “replied” at Chemnitz. The war is on, and you are being naive: they will become embittered, take offence, you say. I don’t understand you!

I think we should reply to the Bureau’s proposal: (a) we reject all the Germans for giving money to the Bund and the Caucasus; (b) we will go to the conference only with the excluded group of liquidators without the nationals; (c) a preliminary condition—their formal disavowal of the vile slander in *Luch* about provocation in Warsaw. The motives are clear. What is your opinion?

Answer more precisely, more directly, more decisively. I will not go anywhere if you carry your “scenes” to the point of refusal; I will put forward Semashko or...* Is that what you are after? Once again: were you right with your “fear” about Basel? or was I, that the affair suffered no harm, but was beneficial both for the cause and for the pocket?

7) The financial crisis is serious. We had a CC meeting with Koba. It was decided to warn you urgently:

* Word illegible. *Ed.*

look for paid work! Count on 100 francs a month for 3 months + payment by the line from *Pravda*, and then nothing. Think it over and write an answer quickly.

Yours, Lenin

P.S. From *Pravda* they write to us: Alexinsky and Co. (sic!) approached with an offer of articles, making it a condition that their articles be published, with which the editors disagree.

They replied: very glad of collaboration, but we cannot accept such a condition, for our task now is to concentrate the forces of the anti-liquidators in the struggle against the liquidators.

A splendid and quite correct reply, in my opinion.

Bear this in mind! What does Alexinsky and Co. want? (What Co.? Only Lunacharsky? or someone else? who?). Only a squabble, as I think (that, you see, *Luch* is kinder, while *Pravda* has rejected me, etc.), or a rapprochement, as Gregory thinks? Do you meet... or meet..., check, find out what, if possible, and write.

More about the group: there is a letter (not to us, but a reliable letter) that cultural-national autonomy was defeated against the liquidators + Chkheidze. This is the only fact known to us of the formation of our majority of 12 in the group. We know nothing more yet. As soon as we learn, we shall write.