Letter to Karl Radek, February 3, 1917

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Author(s) Lenin
Written 3 February 1917


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First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49. Sent from Zurich to Davos. Printed from the original. Translated from the German.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, page 608.
Keywords : Karl Radek, Letter

Dear Radek,

Spectator’s pamphlet[1] is so absurd that at first I had doubts whether it was worth answering. But as this petty intrigant is trying, by the most despicable and stupid means, to make capital out of our differences, I presume—especially since he names me, and only me, personally—that it is my right and my duty to answer him. I shall do everything to have this reply published not only in Russian.

As regards our draft resolution against defence of the fatherland (for Switzerland),[2] I forgot to tell you the following: my draft (the opening §§ in my theses) satisfied you, that is, I succeeded then in expressing our common point of view. Why not adopt it as a basis for our joint draft?

My best regards,

Ulyanov

P.S. I have received from America No. 1 of the new weekly Internationalist. They announce in the Manifesto their solidarity with the “Lefts in Europe”. The publisher is Pannekoek of Vorbote. What should I send you—the English original or the Russian translation?

  1. ↑ See previous document.—Ed.
  2. ↑ This refers to “Theses on the Attitude of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party Towards the War” (see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 149–51).—Ed.
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