V. I.

Lenin

January 4, 1915

Dear Colleague, I received your letter yesterday and sent a telegram
“ consens ”—agreed. However sad it is that the editors struck
out everything about socialism and tactics (without which
Marx is not Marx), I had to agree all the same, because your
argument (“absolutely impossible”) could not be gainsaid. [1]

I shall be very grateful if you send me a proof, or drop
me a postcard about when it could be expected. By the way, is there still time for some corrections to the section
on dialectics? Perhaps you will be so kind as to let me know
when it is being sent for setting, and what the deadline is
for corrections. It is a question I have been working on these
last six weeks, and I think I could add something if there
is still time.

Then I would like to offer my services to the editors of
the dictionary, if there are still any unallotted articles in
the volumes to be published. I am now in exceptionally good conditions as regards German and French libraries,
to which I have access in Berne—and in exceptionally bad
conditions as regards literary work in general. Therefore I
would be very glad to take on articles on questions of political economy, politics, the labour movement, philosophy,
etc. My wife has written on education, as N. Krupskaya, in
Russkaya Shkola and Svobodnoye Vospitaniye , [2] and has
made a particular study of the question of the “ Labour School ” and the old pedagogical classics. She would be glad
to undertake articles on these questions.

At your service,
V. Ulyanov

Wl. Uljanow. Distelweg. 11. Bern.