THE LETTER TO Y. D. STASOVA,

THE LETTER TO Y. D. STASOVA,

F. V. LENGNIK, AND OTHERS*

14/X. [1904]

A new pamphlet by Trotsky came out recently, under the editorship of Iskra, as was announced. This makes it the “Credo” as it were of the new Iskra.3 The pamphlet is a pack of brazen lies, a distortion of the facts. And this is done under the editorship of the CO. The work of the Iskra group is vilified in every way, the Economists,4 it is alleged, did far more, the Iskra group displayed no initiative, they gave no thought to the proletariat, were more concerned with the bourgeois intelligentsia, introduced a deadly bureaucracy everywhere—their work was reduced to carrying out the programme of the famous “Credo”. The Second Congress was, in his words, a reactionary attempt to consolidate sectarian methods of organisation, etc. The pamphlet is a slap in the face both for the present Editorial Board of the CO and for all Party workers. Reading a pamphlet of this kind you can see clearly that the “Minority” has indulged in so much lying and falsehood that it will be incapable of producing anything viable, and one wants to fight, here there is something worth fighting for.

Kol’s wife is well, she is in Yekaterinoslav.

Warm greetings to all of you.

Starik & Co.

V. I. Lenin, Collected Works,

Vol. 43, p. 129

* Written by Krupskaya on Lenin’s instructions.—Ed.