Dear Comrade!

I am sending a letter about the "Vorkonferenz".[129]

Make a copy for "Lichtstrahlen" — or entrust Wynkoop (if you are confident in his reliability) to forward it to them.

All of this is vertraulich*. Give me your word not to speak of it to Grimm, Balabanova, Trotsky, or anyone whatsoever!

Read my letter to Wynkoop and send it on****. I hope you sent the previous one! Drop me a line about it.

Either the German Left will rally now (even if only for an ideological statement in the name of an anonymous group "Stern"***** or however you like: workers will then attach themselves to this group), or we should spit on them.
(I understand that "Lichtstrahlen" cannot come out directly. But why shouldn't the group "Stern" composed of X + Y + Z issue resolutions or a manifesto??
And then privately and in secret distribute it?)
I don't understand how you missed the Vorkonferenz in Bern!?! And you even tried to advise me!?

Your Lenin

P. S. Is it difficult for you to read Russian? Do you understand everything?

NB

* — very soon. Ed.

** — Esteemed Comrade! Ed.

*** — confidentially. Ed.

**** See the present volume, pp. 97-98. Ed.

***** — "The Star." Ed.