February 14 (27), 19171*

Dear friend! If you send me your theses on the military question, I will certainly be glad to talk about them. About your speech against Golay I do not understand why you might have had the idea that it was "embarrassing". On the contrary, I think it was archly and archly useful. It is more direct and decisive to speak out against the ridiculous pacifism of the French (to achieve socialism without revialization, etc.) and the ridiculous belief in democracy. Golay, in my opinion, should have been specifically lambasted publicly for his retreat from the valuable confessions in his pamphlet "Le Socialisme qui meurt "1. I think that this pamphlet is an excellent material, a framework for criticizing the weakness and ill-consideration of the French Left.

I received from you a copy of the Russian text of the leaflet2 (I am very glad that you liked it). But the French text is still missing!!!! And I asked you to write in 2 copies!!!!! I am depressed by the thought that we will be late - after all, there are only 2 months left until 1.V., and the difficulties of communication with the warring countries are immensely great.

About Usievich you write just now that he is "spineless". It means that I did not scold him in vain (and I asked him to show you this letter precisely in order that we might agree on ways of influencing him; spineless people, before they succumb completely to the influence of scoundrels a la Trojanovskii, should be given a timely ultimatum: break with us or break with Trojanovskii, be ashamed to listen to their gossip, with which even the newspapers hostile to us do not allow them to appear!

So, if possible, hurry up with the French and English translations of the leaflet. If for some reason or even if it was not possible to write in two copies, at least inform me when exactly the leaflet (French) was sent to Abramovich.

That you have begun to speak more often with young people, I am glad to hear that. It's a useful thing! Only youth is worth working on! It would be necessary to break their pacifism and disbelief in the mass movement in every possible way (and the strike in Zurich in 1912? And in Geneva in 1900 or 1902?). It would be good for you to find material on the big strikes in the history of the French labor movement.

Nadia corrected herself.

I shake your hand firmly. Yours2*.

P.S. Pannekuk's discussion with Kautsky in "Neue Zeit" (1912)3 read: Kutskii is an archipodle, and Pannekukpochtichtivist; he has only inaccuracies, errors. Kautsky is the top of opportunism.

Published (with bills) - Lenin V.I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 49, с. 392-393.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 4434 - autograph.

1* The letter has a note I.F.Armand: "February 27, 1917", on the basis of which the letter is dated.

2* Further Lenin's signature is a stroke.

1V.I.Lenin is referring to P. Golay's pamphlet "Le socialisme qui meurt et le socialisme, qui doit renaitre. Conference donnee to la Maison du Peuple de Lausanne le 11 mars 1915" ("Socialism dying and socialism, which must revive. Conference at the Maison du Peuple de Lausanne on March 11, 1915").

2See Doc. 102, note 1.

3This refers to the article "Massenaktion und Revolution" by A. Pannekoek, "Massenaktion und Revolution"), published in Die Neue Zeit, 1912, Nos. 41, 42, 43, dated July 12, 19, 26 (N.S.).