Note: dated 26 XI 1900 otherwise they would have remained without any means of propaganda."
Plekhanov devoted several notes to the struggle for the printing press. (See Plekhanov's Works, Vol. XII, p. 59. "From a Social-Democrat's Notebook").
•) The words about which Plekhanov writes are the following:
"... In view of this, while in no way denying the merits of the 'Workers' Cause,' which has labored considerably over the publication of literature and the organization of its distribution,— we refuse to recognize one of the parts of the split organization as the foreign representative of our party."
Lenin left this passage unchanged. See the following letter from Lenin to Axelrod of 11/XII 1900.
7) The Siberian — P. Teplyy; B. Krichevsky, see letter 1, note 5.
8) Boltmann, author of works on historical materialism. Plekhanov may have had in mind two of his books that existed in Russian translation: 1) Boltmann — "Historical Materialism," translated by Babitsky and Pyatin, St. Petersburg 1900; and 2) Boltmann — "Darwin's Theory and Socialism." St. Petersburg 1900, translated under the editorship of Dr. of Philosophy Philippov.
⁹) "Criticism of Our Critics." First article. Mr. Struve in the role of critic of Marx's theory of social development. Published in No. 1 of "Dawn" (see Plekhanov's Works, Vol. XI).

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11/XII [1900, Munich].

Dear P. B., Thank you very much for promptly sending me your remarks on the note about the split *). I have made the corrections you desired, but I could only not remove entirely the words about the merits of the Workers' Cause,— it seems to me this would be unjust toward an opponent who has not only offenses before social democracy.

Poletaev²) informed me of news that delighted me greatly—that you have now somewhat freed yourself from Käfer and could come stay with us for a time. Now that would be excellent!— as regards arrangements, I think there will be no difficulties; one can find a room by the week. You have a Swiss citizen's passport, after all. I am still hoping (still hoping because I have been hoping for a long time already and without success) for the speedy arrival of both friends. Alexei [Martov]³) writes that he is "eager," though various circumstances are delaying him somewhat. The other friend⁴) hasn't written for quite a while,— but I don't think this could indicate anything very bad. By the time of their arrival, probably Iskra (in 1–2 weeks) and Zarya will come out as well (Dietz has hired a second typesetter and is pushing ahead quickly, hurrying us along. By the way, will you have something for this issue of the journal *) ?); — some things will also become clearer regarding transportation (oh, what a difficult question!) and regarding materials, and then it would be extremely desirable to arrange a general conference. I dream greatly of this.

V. I. LENIN — P. B. AXELROD.

*) Perhaps you could compile something from what you have written about Liebknecht and was cut from the newspaper.