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To:   THE EDITORS OF PROSVESHCHENIYE

To Andrei
Nikolayevich, [1] private

Dear Colleague, I sent you today another article, Bukharin’s. All for
No. 2. [2]

I hope this will keep you going for the time being.

Re Bogdanov’s departure, there is apparently a quite erroneous opinion,
which must be combated.

1. Who has gone because of him? No one. Consequently, it looks as if we
have antagonised somebody; this lie must be disproved.

2. He is himself a minus (and not an 0). I am surprised that they vote
for Bogdanov in Priboi without defending his false platitudes, without
defending his platitudes in An Introduction to Political Economy . This is uncollegiate. You have
forgotten. Write. Explain. Argue. Fancy voting with out a collegiate
exchange of opinions! Cowardly. Crazy. Vulgar. Harmful. Let them explain
art.
G. G., [3]

why they drag rot propaganda into the workers’ midst.

3. There is a decision for the Vperyod group. This is not
true. Where is it? Give me their letters to Pravda .... There
aren’t any. These are fairy-tales of the soft-hearted muddleheads from
among the intelligentsia....

I am sending only articles approved by the Editorial Board. Including
Pavlov’s article. It is suitable. Bogdanov is a nonentity, whom it is
ridiculous to give much attention to.