Date: 1922-03-10
Source: ru:PSS/v54
Source: CW vol 54

(Copy to Comrade Kamenev)
Comrade Chicherin!

I cannot provide the articles. I ask you not to count on me at all. It is necessary to take care in advance to have a very responsible and very competent editor for everything we publish in the English newspapers. I am very afraid that without appointing such an editor, we will get rubbish in the "Manchester Guardian" that will only harm us.

Especially now, when there is a strong likelihood of the French sabotaging Genoa, we need to make our articles a fighting statement, i.e., a completely clear plan for restoring Russia not on a capitalist basis and

* This refers to the book "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (see Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 41, pp. 1-104). Ed.

L. B. KRASIN. MARCH 10, 1922

a stinging indictment of the complete helplessness, confusion, and mindlessness of the European states.

Lenin

Dictated over the telephone

March 8, 1922

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First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from a typescript copy