7) We shall try to come to an agreement with the AUCCTU on the theses, conceding  
when, though?  
the sphere of comradely ethics and discipline, but excluding official and service crimes and misdemeanours.

P. Krasikov Comrade Krasikov! I am very much afraid that the matter will again fall asleep. Please, return it to me with a couple of words of comment: when? point by point, when?

For God’s sake, do not let the matter fall asleep, otherwise chaos will remain and deepen.

12/X.

Yours, Lenin

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Written on October 12, 1921.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII.

Printed from the manuscript.