I am very troubled that a section of the Latvians supports cultural-national autonomy or wavers,
supports Bundist federalism or wavers, wavers in coming out against the nationalism and separatism of the Bund,
wavers in supporting our demand for the closure of the liquidationist newspaper of the circle
of disorganizers in Petersburg 352 etc.

Is this section large? — generally speaking and among Central Committee members? — among workers and among intellectuals?

Is it influential?

After all, we are conducting the struggle against the liquidationists in Petersburg and in Russia. What is to be done if you in good conscience cannot help us wage war against the liquidationists and Bundists?? After all,
it would then be dishonest to conclude a firm pact and simply even imprudent!

And now there is this base wavering of the Polish opposition for the liquidationists (voting
for the Brussels resolution) 353, for nationalism (recognizing cultural-national
autonomy as a "disputed point"), for federalism (demanding the old, Tyszka's,
pact of 1906 with the P.S.D.).

Clarity, clarity above all! Whoever has not made clear to himself the position and conditions of the war of proletarian democracy against the bourgeois (= liquidationists and nationalists), had better wait.

I should like to know your opinion!

Your Lenin

I would be very glad to learn the opinion of "Paragraph" on these questions. Show him
the letter!
(Please give our CC's "14 points"* to Rude for a day, for reading.)

in the journal

* These refer to the conditions for "unity" proposed by the Bolsheviks at the Brussels "unification" conference (see V. I. Lenin. Works, 5th ed., vol. 25, pp. 384-396). Ed.

Written after July 18, 1914

Sent from Poronin to Berlin

First published in 1935 "Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya" No. 5

Printed from the manuscript