V. I. Lenin

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

Dear friend! Today news came that the Executive Committee of the ISB has fixed
the so-called “unity” conference for July 16, 17 and 18 in Brussels.333

We must form a delegation. Whether we shall go is not known. Perhaps Gregory, but
even he, more likely, will not.

On behalf of the C.C. I am asking you to consent to be on the delegation.

We shall pay the travelling expenses.

We shall work out the tactics in the fullest detail.

* — i.e., four-fifths of the advanced workers united around the Bolshevik *Pravda*. — Ed.

If there is the slightest possibility of arranging for the children for 6-7 days (or even less, for the
conference lasts 3 days), I would ask you to consent. You know the affairs well, speak French
excellently, and read *Pravda*. We are also thinking of Popov, Kansky, Yuri. All have been written to.

So, answer at once, without losing an hour. Consent!

Very truly, V. I.

We have not yet decided or formed the delegation: we are looking. All preliminary negotiations so far. But time is short.

We must hurry very much!!

Do consent, really! It will be a good change for you and you will be of use to the cause!!

Gregory’s wife is ill. I do not want to go “on principle”. Apparently the Germans (the embittered Kautsky and Co.) want to spite us. Soit!* We calmly (I am not fit for that) on
behalf of the majority of 8/10, in the most polite (I am not fit for that) French language will propose our terms. But you have grown bolder now, have read reports and would carry it out excellently!

If the dear comrades want unity, here are the terms of the majority of the class-conscious workers of Russia. If they don’t want it, as they please!!

“They” want to give us “battle” (a decisive one) in Vienna. An empty threat!! They can do nothing!!

* — So be it! — Ed.