V. I.

Lenin

188

To:   G. V. PLEKHANOV

March 29, 1910

My dear comrade, Fully sharing your idea, stated in Dnevnik No. 11, about the need
for a close and sincere alignment of all genuinely Social-Democratic
elements in the struggle against liquidationism and otzovism, I should
very much like to have a talk with you personally about the present state
of affairs in the Party. If you, too, find this useful and if your health
permits, be so kind as to write me (or wire) a few words as to when you
could meet me in San Remo. I am ready to make the journey for that
purpose. [1]

With comradely greetings,

N. Lenin

Vl. Oulianoff, 4, Rue Marie Rose, Paris, XIV.

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Notes:
[1]
In answer to this letter Plekhanov wrote on April 2, 1910: “I, too, think,
that the only way of coping with the crisis our Party is now living through
is by a close alignment among the Menshevik Marxists and the Bolshevik
Marxists, and I believe that you and I should talk this over.” Plekhanov,
however, wrote that this meeting should be held later. During the
Copenhagen Congress of the Second International, at which Plekhanov and
Lenin wrote to the Executive Committee of the Social-Democratic Party of
Germany protesting against the publication in Vorwärts of an
anonymous article by Trotsky, an agreement was reached between Lenin and
Plekhanov for a joint struggle for the Party and the Party principle
against liquidationism and the liquidators, and for Plekhanov’s
contribution to Rabochaya Gazeta .