And what does "Noga" mean?

LENIN TO ZINOVIEV

Write to Rimma that you request the floor, since the conference did not decide not to discuss this here.

UNKNOWN TO LENIN

Revolution — but only in the social-scientific-historical-evolutionist-exhaustion-strategic etc. sense, and not today, but Monday morning.

LENIN'S NOTE

Assessment of Mayer's speech.

V. I. LENIN

* DRAFT PROPOSAL ON REJECTION OF WAR CREDITS

[5–8 September 1915]

Die Konferenz drückt den Wunsch aus, dass die hier anwesenden Mitglieder der sozialdemokratischen Reichstagsfraktion eine formelle Erklärung abgeben, in der sie sich rücksichtslos verpflichten in der Zukunft die Kriegskredite abzulehnen.

We did not submit this.

* — Revolution — but only in the social-scientific-evolutionary-historical sense, in the spirit of a strategy calculated on the exhaustion of forces, etc., and not today, but on Monday morning. *Ed.*

*The following words, written in Zinoviev's hand, are then crossed out in the manuscript: "The conference expresses the confidence that". *Ed.*

ADDITIONS TO THE STATEMENT OF THE ZIMMERWALD LEFT [Translation]

The conference expresses the wish that the members of the Social-Democratic Reichstag Fraction present here submit a formal declaration that they henceforth unconditionally undertake to reject war credits.

The "Additions" printed below were not included in the final text of the statement in which the Zimmerwald Left motivated their vote for the official manifesto. The text of the statement of motivation, signed by the group of the Left, was printed in No. 47 of *Sotsial-Demokrat* of 4 October 1915. (Reprinted in the section "Materials and Documents" of Vol. XVIII of Lenin's Works, p. 449.)

V. I. LENIN

* ADDITIONS TO THE STATEMENT OF THE ZIMMERWALD LEFT

[8 September 1915]

"N° 1 noch die wichtigste Frage des Opportunismus berührt, noch die besonders schädliche Rolle des s.-d. Zentrums aufdeckt."

"N° 2. We vote for it in particular because we wish to meet the two French comrades halfway, who raised an important consideration. Namely, they pointed to the extraordinary oppression of the workers [in France, to the extreme corruption of them by [anarchist] revolutionary phrase, to the necessity of a slow and cautious transition to a decisive tactic. [If France] However, in Europe as a whole, the enemy of the workers' movement is precisely opportunism."

* — touches neither the most important question of opportunism, nor exposes the particularly harmful role of the s.-d. centre. *Ed.*

** The words: "that we wish to meet the two French comrades halfway, who" are written above the uncrossed-out words: "that the two French comrades". *Ed.*