Written: Written in August 1918
Published:
First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.
Sent from Flums to Hertenstein.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1977],
Moscow,
Volume 43,
pages 568b-569a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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There is no conflict: you are imagining too much, really. Recollect (or reread) my letter: I did not state that I was voting against your article, I only wrote: “write and tell me candidly” what you think of such-and-such a plan.[1] You wrote.
And that’s all.
So the article is going in.
Yuri will “reconcile” us still more, I believe,[2] as it is precisely his conclusion that “in the epoch of imperialism” there can be no “defence of the fatherland”.
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In fact, “in an imperialist war, engendered by the epoch of
imperialism, defence of the fatherland is a deception”.
These are “two great differences”.
Best regards,
Lenin
P.S. Isn’t it time we sent a joint letter to N. I. B. about the faction? I think it is. And about his article?
I am for issuing the C.O. I agree!
[1] See Document 514 in this volume.—Ed.
[2] Lenin’s ironical comment stresses the error of and certain uniformity in the wordings of Pyatakov’s and Zinoviev’s articles concerning “defence” of the fatherland (see Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata No. 2, December 1916, p. 27).
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