V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v26;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Date: 1905-08
Source: Lenin Miscellany, Volume 26
Pages: 32-33

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Dear A[natoly] V[asilyevich]!

I was extremely glad to hear of your plan for a pamphlet: “Three R[ev]olutions”. For the time being, drop your reply to Plekhanov: let that embittered doctrinaire bark away. To go specially into philosophy at such a moment!? We must work with all our might for the s.-d.—don’t forget that you are engaged for all your working time.

And get down to the three revolutions as quickly as possible. This subject must be thoroughly and well worked out. I am sure you could do it. To give a popular account of the tasks of socialism, its essence and the conditions for its realisation. Then—the victory of the present revolution, the significance of the peasant movement (a special chapter), what can complete victory consist in now? a provisional government, a revolutionary army, insurrection—the significance and conditions of the new forms of struggle. Revolution à la 1789 and à la 1848. Finally (it would be better to make this the second part, and the preceding the third), on the bourgeois character of the revolution, more detail on the economic side, and then to expose the Osvobozhdeniye people to the very bone in all their interests, tactics, and politicking.

Really, it is a rich subject and a fighting one against the vulgarisers of Iskra. Please get down to it quickly, and work on it a good deal. It is extremely important to give a substantial popular piece on this subject.

And then about the split. You did not understand me. There is no need for you to wait for me, for these are different subjects: one—history (we shall try to arrange it); the other—a sketch of their methods of polemics.

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[End of August 1905. Geneva]

A literary-critical sketch on the subject: say, “Lubok Literature”. And there, in several chapters for a whole pamphlet, with quotations and explanations, to analyse all this vulgarity of Starover, Martov and others in their polemics with Proletary, as well as the rehashes in “Majority or Minority”, etc. Nail them for their paltry method of warfare. Make a type of them. Draw their full-length portrait from quotations from themselves. I am sure you could do it, only collect a few quotations.

I press your hand firmly. Yours, Lenin.

P.S. Received the article on Kuzmin-Karavayev. Also the feuilleton of ’48.