V. I.

Lenin

463

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

I have just (8 p. m.) received your postcard. I definitely insist on
the insertion: “repudiation of state debts”.

Only today I saw an article in Berner Tagwacht standing for
this demand. And not a word there about petty proprietors, concierges,
etc. Why should we worry about them. Simply say: “for the sake of the
revolution and in connection with it—cancellation of payment on
all state debts”—that is the only serious blow at finance
capital, the only guarantee of a “democratic peace”. Unattainable without
a revolution? Certainly. This is no argument against such a point,
but an argument for revolution.

Certainly. There isn’t the shadow of any reason to disagree with the
Dutch and Berner Tagwacht on this score .

Tomorrow I shall be sending you a long letter. [1]

They haven’t got Tyszka 1912 here; only 1914 (Löhne, [2] etc.), this can be had in Berne, too, in Schriften des Vereins fur Sozial-Politik . Band 145.

Salut, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This letter has not been traced.— Ed .

[2]
Wages.— Ed .