[of a] Sunday supplement for advanced workers + 2 pages of "Rabochaya Kopeyika" for 1 kopeck, for the masses, for the conquest of a hundred thousand readers, of maximally popular content. We should not imitate "Luch," but go our own way, the proletarian way: 4 pages for advanced workers and 2 pages (or even 4 later) for the masses, for a long and stubborn struggle for 100,000 readers. We must push outward and inward, into the masses, not toward intellectual specimens like "Luch."

Once more: greetings, congratulations, and best wishes.

Your V. I.

One more special greeting to Vitimsky: his article on workers' press and workers' democracy against the liberals came out very well!! 212 And Bogdanov's "Ideology" is probably heresy: I promise you to prove this precisely!! 213
Marxists are pleased at increased circulation when it increases in a Marxist way — with m a r x i s t articles, not articles against Marxism. We want an ideological newspaper — all the contributors and readers of "Pravda" want this — a Marxist one, and not a Machist one? Is that not so?

P. S. The address is not Paronen, but Poronin (Galizien) and one must definitely add on the wrapper: route: Warsaw — Border — Zakopane.

Written in May, not earlier than the 25th, 1913

Sent to Petersburg

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXV

Printed from the manuscript