# Note to Mergheim
# Source: Lenin Miscellany XIV, p. 183
# Date: 1915-09-05

CORRESPONDENCE AT THE SESSIONS OF THE ZIMMERWALD CONFERENCE
183
[Translation.]
Defense of the Fatherland...
Add:
profits of the capitalists of any countries, the struggle for peace and credits
Basel Manifesto
The notes printed below, found among Lenin's papers, were written in pencil on small scraps of writing paper.
* CORRESPONDENCE AT THE SESSIONS OF THE ZIMMERWALD CONFERENCE
SEPTEMBER 5-8, 1915
20652
LENIN — MERGENHEIM.
Voici la nécessité de la «philosophie» et de la «théorie» — démontrée par l’orateur! *
20652
MERGENHEIM — LENIN.
La jambe!
Ne vois-tu pas qu’il philosophie à sa façon, comme toi à ta façon! Jean Jacques... et Voltaire. **
20652
LENIN — ZINOVIEV.
I didn't fully understand his answer
20652
ZINOVIEV — LENIN.
I don't understand the end - a word is missing there - of "dubious" nature (otherwise why would it be omitted?)
* - Here is the necessity in "philosophy" and "theory" demonstrated by the speaker. Ed.
** - The Devil take it! ("La jambe" - literally "leg"). Don't you see that he reasons in his own way, just as you do in your own way. Jean Jacques [Rousseau]... and Voltaire. Ed.