Dear friend! I was very glad to receive your letter. I like the plan of your lecture very much*. I definitely advise you to repeat it, challenge H. Droz to a fight, supplement the lecture with a point about the revolution (but the size of the lecture probably won't allow this?), i.e., how can a revolution happen? what is the dictatorship of the proletariat? why is it necessary? why is it impossible without the arming of the proletariat? why is it fully compatible with democracy, complete, comprehensive? (contrary to vulgar opinion).

Droz and other Swiss social-pacifists do not understand this; they have not thought about it; and the Swiss conditions d'un petit Etat et de la petite bourgeoisie d'un petit Etat** generate in every way precisely mbz. (= petty-bourgeois) pacifism.

If you receive "Volksrecht" and "Berner Tagwacht" (these two newspapers must be read), then in my opinion, this is enough to judge the position of the center, which Grimm fully stands on (scoundrel! How fraudulently he "fights" the social-patriot Huber-Rohrschach! !) and which Nobs and Platten have fallen into (by 3/4). You are severely mistaken if you write without joking about my "influence" on Platten. The matter stands as follows: he and Nobs in Zimmerwald and Kienthal "enrolled" in the Left. I made dozens of attempts to lure them into discussions, a circle, conversations. All unsuccessful!! They are afraid of Grimm and fighting him. They are 3/4 = "center." They are almost hopeless. Perhaps a strong left movement will straighten them out, but even that is unlikely?

The corrected resolution is not yet available today. Let's wait until tomorrow.

Münzenberg told me yesterday that they will have a meeting of young people from German and French Switzerland on Tuesday. By that time, our resolution is necessary.

* I am referring to Armand's lecture plan on pacifism. Ed.

** - of a small state and of the petty bourgeoisie of a small state. Ed.