532. TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

532

To: G. Y. ZINOVIEV[1]

Written: Written after December 20, 1916
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Filth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49. Sent from Zurich to Berne. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,[1977], Moscow,Volume 43, page 589.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Regarding Kommunist, it’s not worth arguing any more, seeing that you deny the fact that they insisted to the last on _equality_and refused to make any change in the Editorial Board. You can’t get away from the facts: (1) equality; (2) Tyszka im Hintergrunde.[2]

I sent the 200 frs.

The Shklovsky scandal makes me furious and worries me.[3] And you wanted to hand all the funds over to him!! Energetic action is called for: he should be told that the money is needed by the New Year, and you should keep at him until he returns it all! What a damned scandal! A real “financial swindle”, and right under our noses.

I agree to your plan for a collective letter to_Arbeiterpolitik_.

Best regards,
Lenin

P.S.
What about the letter to Paris?
Hasn’t Inessa sent it yet?
|| N.B.

P.S. Re “_Soviet of Workers’ Deputies_” and other material on 1905 please send to me.

Notes

[1] This letter was preceded by “Remarks Concerning the Article on Maximalism” (see Collected Works, Fifth [Russian] Ed., Vol. 30, pp. 355–58).—Ed.

[2] In the background.—Ed.

[3] In connection with the “Shklovsky scandal” Zinoviev wrote: = “...Shklovsky is in some sort of crisis and he—_without telling us a word_—has put all the Party money into circulation! I am sure that he will soon return it. Meanwhile, the situation is such that we haven’t a centime even for postal expenses....”