V. I.

Lenin

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To:   G. V. PLEKHANOV

June 23, 1902

Dear G. V., A great weight fell from my shoulders when I received your
letter, which put an end to thoughts of “internecine war”. The more this last seemed inevitable the greater the gloom such
thoughts aroused, since the consequences for the Party would be most
unfortunate....

I shall be very glad, when we meet, to have a talk with you about the beginning
of the “affair” in
Munich, [2] not, of course, to rehash the past, but to discover for myself what it was that offended
you at the time. That I had no intention of offending you, you are of course
aware.

V. I. has shown me also your letter about the article, i.e., your proposal to be
given an opportunity of expressing your opinion in your programmatic
article. Personally, I am inclined to consider such a decision the best and I
think that the possibility of registering a 25 per cent difference (if it has to
be registered at all) has always existed for each of the co-editors (just as you
have already mentioned a somewhat different formulation of the question of
nationalisation in the same article—or of the liberals in the review in
Zarya No. 2–3). I am ready now, of course, to discuss with you once
again desirable alterations in my article [1] and I shall send you the proofs for
this purpose. Select anything you like. We ought to finish Zarya as quickly as possible ; as it is the negotiations are dragging out terribly. In any
case. I shall at once inform both
A. N. and Julius of your proposal.

I have not yet received the proofs of your article and so cannot answer your
question about the passage on Marx.

The letter of a
Socialist-Revolutionary, [3] in my opinion, is hardly worth publishing; they have their own press—let them polemise there (for
that’s what it is with them—sheer polemics). About Belgium, it would
be good to publish Rosa Luxemburg’s article, if this could be done
quickly.

All the very best.

N. Lenin

P.S. In a day or two I am going to Germany to see my mother and take a
holiday. [4] My nerves are worn to shreds and I am feeling quite
ill. I hope we shall soon meet in London?