Written: Written March 21, 1916
Published:
First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.
Sent from Zurich to Berne.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1977],
Moscow,
Volume 43,
page 522b.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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(2005).
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I have just (8 p. m.) received your postcard. I definitely insist on the insertion: “repudiation of state debts”.
Only today I saw an article in Berner Tagwacht standing for this demand. And not a word there about petty proprietors, concierges, etc. Why should we worry about them. Simply say: “for the sake of the revolution and in connection with it—cancellation of payment on all state debts”—that is the only serious blow at finance capital, the only guarantee of a “democratic peace”. Unattainable without a revolution? Certainly. This is no argument against such a point, but an argument for revolution.
Certainly. There isn’t the shadow of any reason to disagree with the Dutch and Berner Tagwacht on this score.
Tomorrow I shall be sending you a long letter.[1]
They haven’t got Tyszka 1912 here; only 1914 (Löhne,[2] etc.), this can be had in Berne, too, in Schriften des Vereins fur Sozial-Politik. Band 145.
Salut,
Lenin
[1] This letter has not been traced.—Ed.
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