V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v46; en:CW/CW34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

7. II. 02.

Dear G. V., I am sending you the draft programme* with Berg’s amendments. Please write whether you will introduce amendments or submit a whole counter-draft. I should also like to know which passages have dissatisfied you.

With regard to religion, I read in K. Marx’s letter on the Gotha Programme a sharp criticism of the demand for Gewissensfreiheit** and the assertion that the Social-Democrats must state plainly that they are fighting against religiosem Spuk.158 Do you consider anything of the kind possible, and in what form? After all, we have as much less reason to be cautious about religion than the Germans, as we have about the “republic”.

Please let Koltsoy make a copy from your copy; it will not take much time.

How is your work progressing (if you are writing an article for Zarya, as we suppose)?

When do you think you will finish it?

And you have not sent me the Neue Zeit (Nos. 1 and 3) and the letter on the agrarian programme!! Please send them, or write why there has been a delay. I have ordered Conrad’s Jahrbücher159 for you for 1902. The Wirtschaftliche Chronik*** for 1901 will be out in February, I am told—then they will send it to you. Have you ordered the Torgovo-Promyshlennaya Gazeta160 and have you begun to receive it?

Is there any news from you about the Rabocheye Dyelo people? We have heard nothing of them.

My pamphlet is being set up.****

Vorwärts has refused to publish even an abridged reply, and the matter has been referred to the Vorstand.***** Bebel, it is said, is on our side. We shall see.

I firmly shake your hand.

Yours,
Fre******

* See V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Fifth Edition, Vol. 6, pp. 203-210. Ed.
** — freedom of conscience. Ed.
*** — Economic Chronicle. Ed.
**** — What Is To Be Done? Ed.
***** — Executive. Ed.
****** — Lenin’s pseudonym. Ed.