V. I.

Lenin

795

To:   L. D. TROTSKY, G. Y. ZINOVIEV, N. I. BUKHARIN AND K. B. RADEK [1]

Comrades Trotsky, Zinoviev , Bukharin and Radek

I have read the document which you have sent me, namely, the draft in German entitled “Outline of Agrarian
Action Programme”, compiled mainly by Varga and approved by the commission, and I very much hesitate to
support it. I feel that the draft gives virtually nothing new
in comparison with the resolution of the Second Congress
of the Comintern on the agrarian question. I very much fear that some formulations, diverging, perhaps even
accidentally, from the Second Congress resolution, may cause misunderstanding and breed artificial talk about a
discrepancy between this draft and the Second Congress resolution. There also seems to be a distinct element which
weakens what was said there about supporting the peasant
movement, and which is capable of producing some dissent between the needy peasantry and the rural proletariat.

I am unable to go into this question in greater detail and make a sentence-by-sentence collation between Varga’s
draft resolution which you have sent in and the Second
Congress resolution. I consider it necessary to warn that
we should not let ourselves accumulate numerous resolutions on one and the same question which are capable of
producing misunderstanding and confusion.

As a minimum, I would propose:

1) To collate the new resolution with the Second
Congress resolution sentence by sentence.

2) To give the new resolution the character of something
like a partial commentary.

I personally feel that the new resolution is of very doubtful
value. [2]

Lenin