I am forwarding my work without waiting for these letters, which, very likely, will have to be answered individually. I must say, some of the objections in the telegrams did seem quite incredible to me. Such an understanding of the class character of demands has an anarcho-syndicalist and not a Marxist character. Don't forget that in 1912 the Bolsheviks in the legal press called themselves ''consistent democrats. This pseudonym to pass the censors expressed all the same a very important political tendency of the party's work at that time.
Several telegrams advance the call for soviets instead of the call for a constituent assembly.
This is not in the least a serious alternative. If it were, it would serve us well to reexamine either the entire question of the role of soviets or the question of the character of the period China is passing through. Otherwise we are only confusing the Chinese party and ourselves. But as I already said, I will have to speak about this a little more after receiving the letters, if the present work does not dispel some of the misunderstandings provoked, in part, by the brevity of my letter. Other comrades could send me their observations on different questions or countries.