inform me at least when exactly you sent the leaflet (French) to Abramovich.

That you have begun to speak more frequently among the youth—this delights me immensely. A useful thing!

One should work only with the youth! It is necessary by all means to smash their pacifism and their disbelief in mass movement (and was there not a strike in Zurich in 1912? and in Geneva in 1900 or 1902?). It would be good for you to gather material on the great strikes in the history of the workers' movement in French Switzerland.

Nadya has recovered.

I shake your hand firmly. Your Lenin

P.S. I read Pannekoek's discussion with Kautsky in "Neue Zeit" (1912): Kautsky is utterly vile, while Pannekoek is almost right; he has only inaccuracies, small errors. Kautsky, on the other hand, is the very height of opportunism.

to Clarens (Switzerland)

Published for the first time, from the manuscript

Written 27 February 1917

Sent from Zurich