В. В. ВОРОВСКОМУ
Date: 1908-07-02
Source: PSS vol 47
Translated by: AI (Claude)

Dear friend! Thanks for the letter. Both your "suspicions" are incorrect. I was not nervous, but the situation with us is difficult. A split with Bogdanov is approaching. The true reason is resentment at sharp criticism at the reports

* The manuscript of the document is partially destroyed. Words in square brackets are restored according to sense and to individual preserved letters. Ed.

(by no means in the editorial board) of his philosophical* views. Now Bogdanov is seeking out all kinds of disagreements. He has dragged into the light of day the boycott together with Alexinsky, who is scandalizing recklessly and with whom I have been forced to break off all relations.

They are building a split on the grounds of empiriomonism-boycottism. The matter will break out quickly. A fight at the next conference is inevitable. A split is very probable. I will leave the faction as soon as the line of "leftism" and true "boycottism" gains the upper hand. I called you, thinking that your quick arrival would help calm things down. In August new style we still definitely count on you as a participant in the conference. Absolutely arrange things so that you can travel abroad. We will send money for the trip to all Bolsheviks. On the local level give the watchword: give mandates only to local people and only to actual workers. We urgently request that you write for our newspaper. We can now pay for articles and will pay punctually.

I shake your hand.

Don't you know some publisher who would undertake to publish my philosophy, which I will write?

in the journal "Kommunist" copies (perlustratioin)

Written July 2, 1908

Sent from Geneva to Odessa

First published in 1924 (Odessa) No. 33

Published according to typewritten