Have written to Bukharin.

Am sending an article; it also needs to go to Bern, since Paris is silent.

You need to calculate more precisely (you have both the manuscript and proofs) how much is coming out for Bern.

Of course, I cannot be "satisfied" with the fact that you are sitting on my articles for so long. Send them to the printer immediately: after all, you were the one hurrying me, saying that the typesetter was hurrying you!!

And where are our theses?* Where are the proofs for them?

Regarding the "Social-Democrat"—the question is a difficult one, because I am afraid of delaying the "Collection of the Social-Democrat"!!

When you return "Disarmament,"** I will think it through to the end. Let us weigh more precisely what can go into it and how much it will delay the Collection.

I am not writing for "Questions"*** for now. But in the collection ("Under the Old Banner") I want to write on Kautskyism 377 (by the way, return the pamphlet on imperialism as soon as possible: I need it for a citation).

Salut! Lenin

P.S. You are answering my business questions far less than before.

1916

in Girtenstein (Switzerland)

Published for the first time from the manuscript

Written in mid-September

Sent from Zurich