V. I.

Lenin

441

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

I am sending you
Axelrod, [1]
Neue Zeit (don’t lose it and don’t give it to anybody) and No. 1
of the
Bulletin . [3] I am waiting for the German pamphlet.

The letter to the Japanese is no good as it is, in my opinion. The tone
is for a break. If there is to be a break, it is not for this
reason. Either send this in your own name, or we shall alter it completely
(in a tone of friendly exhortation and discreet intimation of
their error).

I am sending you Radek’s letter (return it). He is naïve to the point
of holiness. Grimm is a scoundrel who has to be closely watched. (To this
day I have not been able to get our Resolutionsentwurf!!!)

I am enclosing Kamenev’s letter. I have answered him, pointing out that
the situation is serious (spoilt) and must be seriously rectified.

Write the editorial for the Central Organ, but not more than 10,000 ems . (No room for more!) It must include a slashing criticism
of the Organising Committee’s leaflet (3.IX.1915, “The Tasks of the
Russian Proletariat”) with the slogan (liberal) of Constituent Assembly . For our 3 pillars , against the Cadets, against the
chauvinist revolutionaries and for the international revolution of the
proletariat. [2]

Wait a day or two (don’t write about Russia in the C.O. yet).

Tomorrow I shall send you “The Tasks of the Russian Proletariat” and
maybe my own draft.

Best regards, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The idiot! “Internationalisation of tactics”=internationalisation of
labour legislation!! This is what Martushka had been driving at in
Nashe Slovo , but far more cleverly. I should like to show Axelrod
up properly in Kommunist . — Lenin

[2]
This paragraph is crossed out in the manuscript.— Ed .

[3]
This refers to the Bulletin of the International Socialist
Commission in Borne, the executive organ of the Zimmerwald
organisation. The Bulletin appeared from September 1915 to January
1917 in English, French and German. Altogether 6 numbers were issued. The
I.S.C. Bulletin No. 1 published the Manifesto of the International
Socialist Conference in Zimmerwald and the official report on the
conference.