V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48; en:CW/CW35;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Krakow, August 1, 1912.

Krakau. Oesterreich.

Zwierzyniec. 218.

Wl. Uljanow.

Dear A. M.,

I have received your letter and the letter from the Siberians. My address now is not Paris but Krakow—see above.

I did not quite understand from which party you are going to expel me—not from the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, I hope?

No, joking apart, you have adopted a bad habit, a philistine, bourgeois habit—of brushing things aside with: “You are all squabblers.” Just take a look at the new Socialist-Revolutionary literature:

*Pochin* 96, *Izvestia Zagranichnoi Oblastnoi Organizatsii* 97—compare them with *Revolutsionnaya Mysl* 98, *Revolutsionnaya Rossia* 99, and then there is also Ropshin 100, etc.

Recall *Vekhi* 101 and the polemics (quasi-polemics) with them of Milyukov, Gredeskul (who has now discovered that a second revolution is not needed in Russia), and so on and so forth.

Put all this together, the whole sum of ideological trends of 1908-1912 among the S.R.s, Trudoviks, Bez Zaglavia people, and Cadets, and compare it with what was and is among the Social-Democrats (some historian will probably do this work some day). You will see that all, literally all those outside the Social-Democrats were deciding the same,

*—as it were. Ed.

TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE NEWSPAPER “PRAVDA”. AUGUST 2, 1912

literally the same questions over which groups in our Party split away towards liquidationism and otzovism.

The bourgeoisie, the liberals, the S.R.s, who treat the “painful questions” frivolously, trail behind others, resort to diplomacy, and dabble in eclecticism, love to shout about “squabbling” among the Social-Democrats. The difference between the Social-Democrats and all of them is that among the Social-Democrats the squabbling clothes a struggle of groups with deep and clear ideological roots, whereas among them the squabbling is outwardly smoothed over, inwardly empty, petty, and miserable. I would never, for anything, exchange the sharp struggle of trends among the Social-Democrats for the sleek emptiness and poverty of the S.R.s and Co.

I firmly shake your hand.

Yours, Lenin

P.S. Greetings to M. F.!

P.S. In Russia there is a revolutionary upsurge, not any other kind, but precisely a revolutionary one. And we have succeeded in establishing the daily *Pravda*—thanks, among other things, precisely to that (January) conference* which the fools are barking at.

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Sent to the Island of Capri (Italy)

First published in 1924

in the Lenin Miscellany I

Printed from the manuscript