Dear friend!

You, it seems, are too nervous – this explains a number of theoretical “oddities” in your letters.

Is it not necessary to distinguish between the 1st and 2nd revolutions or the 1st and 2nd stages??

It is precisely necessary. Marxism demands distinguishing the classes that are acting. In Russia, the class in power is not the same as before. Hence, the revolution that lies ahead is altogether, altogether different.

My phrase about the Milyukovs’ support for the workers had (as it seemed to me) a clear meaning:  
if the Messrs. Milyukov really wanted to finish off the monarchy, they would have to *support the workers.* That is all!

One must not make a “fetish” out of revolution. Kerensky is a revolutionary, but a windbag, a petty liar, a deceiver of the workers. It is almost certain that even in the St. Petersburg “Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies” the majority has been duped by him (with the help of the vacillating and muddled Chkheidze). And what will happen with the countryside?

It is quite possible that for a time the majority of both workers and peasants will indeed be in favour of the imperialist war (which the Guchkovs + Milyukovs are passing off as “defence