Written: Written mid-September 1916
Published:
First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.
Sent from Zurich to Hertenstein.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1977],
Moscow,
Volume 43,
pages 572b-573a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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We have written to Bukharin.
I am sending you an article; it should go to Berne too, as Paris is silent.
We must calculate more exactly (you have both the MSS. and proofs) how much there is for Berne.
Naturally, I can’t be “pleased” with your keeping my articles so long in pickle. Send them immediately to the printing shop: you hurried me with them, saying the compositor was hurrying you!!
And where are our theses?[1] Where are the proofs of them?
The question of Sotsial-Demokrat is a difficult one, as I am afraid this will hold up Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata!!
When you have returned “Disarmament”[2] I shall think it over finally. We shall weigh more carefully what can go in there, how long it will hold up Sbornik.
I am not writing anything so far for Voprosy.[3] But for the collection (Pod Starym Znamenem) I want to write about Kautskyism[4] (incidentally, return the pamphlet on imperialism as soon as possible: I need it for quoting).
Salut!
Lenin
P.S. On business matters you answer much less.
[1] See “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” (present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 143–56).—Ed.
[2] See “The ‘Disarmament’ Slogan” (present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 94–104).—Ed.
[3] The journal Voprosy Strakhovaniya.—Ed.
[4] The second issue of the collection Pod Starym Znamenem for which Lenin intended to write his article on Kautskyism did not appear.
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