She wants to set Levi two conditions:

1) resign his mandate as a parliamentary deputy;

2) close his organ ("Soviet" 83 or "Our Path," as it apparently calls itself now) with a loyal statement with respect to the decisions of the III Congress of the Communist International.

Furthermore, she fears lest some of Levi's friends take it into their heads to publish Rosa Luxemburg's manuscript against the Bolsheviks (written, it seems, in prison in 1918). If anyone does this, she intends to declare in print that she is fully convinced of the disloyalty of such an act. She, it is said, knew Rosa Luxemburg most intimately and is convinced that Rosa herself recognized these views of hers as erroneous, recognized after her release from prison that her own information had been insufficient.

Moreover, Leo Jogiches, Rosa Luxemburg's closest friend, two days before his death in a detailed conversation with Zetkin told her about this manuscript of Rosa Luxemburg's, that Rosa Luxemburg herself recognized its erroneousness 84. Zetkin wanted, at my request, to write this to you.

If she did so, I ask you to send me her letter.

It is also interesting that, according to her words, in Germany there is a wave of unification of all workers (both SPD and USPD people) in the struggle against wage cuts and so forth. Of course, Zetkin was entirely right in saying that communists should be for such unification in the struggle against capitalists. If the "lefts" are against it, one must bring them to their senses.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

To Zinoviev

P. S. Lozovsky has already published the resolutions of the Profintern Congress. That's a fine fellow!

And you?? Appoint a responsible person for the editorial work and instruct Lozovsky to publish the resolutions of the III Congress of the Communist International.

First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Published from the manuscript