V. I.

Lenin

Dear Comrade, We were very willingly preparing to publish your article
on Struve’s book. [2] But in a second reading we realised
that the passage about the serf economy would inevitably
be understood in Party circles as advice to delete the confiscation of landed estates in the Programme. This needs
discussing. Why not throw out the passage for the time being? We thought you did not want to start a discussion
just at present .

If we are wrong, and you did want to start a discussion,
drop us a line: if you insist, we shall carry the article.... [1]

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Notes:
[1]
Here the MS. breaks off.— Ed .

[2]

N. I. Bukharin’s article “Mr. Struve’s Hocus-Pocuses” appeared
in Prosveshcheniye No. 12, 1913, as a review of P. B. Struve’s
book, The Economy and Price. Part One. The Economy and Society. — Price-Value. St. Petersburg-Moscow. Ryabushinsky
Publishers, 1913. On Lenin’s advice, the section on the serf
economy was deleted.