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To Anatoly Vasilyevich
16. IV. [19]08. [Geneva]

Dear Anatoly Vasilyevich, I have received your letter. I am very pleased that you are taking on work for *Proletarian*. This is extremely necessary, and precisely the themes you have outlined—plus Italian correspondence—are especially needed. See that you do not forget that you are a contributor to the party newspaper, and do not let those around you forget it either.

I shake your hand firmly.

Your Lenin.

P.S. On the question of philosophy, privately: I cannot return your compliments and think that you will soon take them back. As for me, my roads have parted (and should be for a long time) with the preachers of the "union of scientific socialism with religion" and with all the Machists as well.

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