V. I.

Lenin

705

To:   N. I. BUKHARIN [1]

Bogdanov has fooled you by disguising (verkleidet) an old dispute and trying to shift it onto a different plane .
And you are taken in by it!

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Notes:
[1]
Written in reply to a note from Bukharin concerning V. I.
Nevsky’s article “Dialectical Materialism and the Philosophy of
Dead Reaction” (see present edition, Vol. 14, p. 21). In his note,
Bukharin pointed out that whereas previously Bogdanov had
recognised philosophy, he now abolished it and replaced it by “
tektology” or “universally organised science” (as Bogdanov called
his book published in 1913). “This formulation of the problem
is on a different plane from that of empirio-monism,” wrote
Bukharin. “It can be disputed but it is necessary at least to
understand it. Nevsky, however, does not have this minimum
requirement.”