To Comrade Chicherin or Karakhan
I very much request that tomorrow, Friday, you send to Berlin 12 copies of my article against Kautsky from Pravda 2 for Joffe, Berzin, Vorovsky 3 and the following brief letter of mine to them:

Dear comrades!
I am very well aware of the shortcomings of my too brief article against Kautsky.
But all the same, we must take a stand and express our opinion as quickly as possible. I very much request that you translate and issue it as a leaflet.
10/X 1918.
Lenin

1 L. M. Karakhan — deputy people’s commissar for foreign affairs.
2 This refers to the article “The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky” (see Collected Works, 4th ed., Vol. 28, pp. 85—93).
3 Ya. A. Berzin — plenipotentiary representative of the R.S.F.S.R. in Switzerland. V. V. Vorovsky — plenipotentiary representative of the R.S.F.S.R. in the Scandinavian countries.