Date: 1908-04-16
Source: ru:PSS/v47

dialectics are especially needed. So take heed: do not forget that you are a staff member of the Party newspaper, and do not allow those around you to forget it either.

I shake your hand firmly.

Yours, Lenin

P.S. As for philosophy, in private: I cannot return the compliment to you—and I suspect you will soon be reclaiming it yourself. My path has diverged (and, no doubt, for the long haul) from the preachers of “the fusion of scientific socialism with religion,” as well as from all the Machists.

on the island of Capri (Italy)

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Sent from Geneva

First published in 1934

in Lenin’s Collected Works, Volume XXVI

Printed from the manuscript