257. TO L. B. KAMENEV (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

257

To: L. B. KAMENEV

Written: Written after November 25, 1912
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48. Sent from Cracow to Paris. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,[1977], Moscow,Volume 43, pages 309b-310a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Dear L. B.,

I am furious with you for your carelessness: you did not arrange for letters from the congress!! But of that another time. You made Koba lose_most_ precious time.

Now to the point. In my opinion you handled things in Basle—under the circumstances—superbly. It couldn’t have been done better. There couldn’t have been a better occasion to unmask the liquidators. (I gathered—for you “haven’t finished” your letter yet!—that the I.S.B. did not examine at all the division of votes). The outcome was a tie, and this was the best outcome with the present balance of strength....[1]The question of the “nationals” was, in my opinion, in place, like all the three questions. In a word, as regards the main thing—félicitations les plus chaleureuses!

Why was Muranov’s signature missing? For the telegram was on Sunday! [2]

So far we have seen two of the six: Malinovsky and Muranov. Impression excellent.... The soil is rich, but a great deal of work is needed....

P.S. In my opinion, parity can be agreed to, but you must put forward one condition: rejection of Haase because of bias and insulting behaviour in the Bureau.

It is our legitimate right and moral duty to reject his candidacy. And politically it is clear... hatching a malicious intrigue against us....

Notes

[1] Manuscript partly damaged. Here and further several words illegible.—Ed.

[2] A reference to the signing by M. K. Muranov, a deputy to the Fourth Duma, of a letter From the Social-Democratic Duma group protesting against war. A telegram announcing that Muranov was ad ding his signature was sent by Lenin to Basle on November 24 (N. S.), 1912.