V. I.

Lenin

294

To:   V. V. ADORATSKY

August 2

Comrade Adoratsky, I have looked through the introduction. It’s difficult
to judge, because it’s unfinished. It looks as though it
should be cut down, and expressed much more clearly, with closer attention to the
formulations. [1]

The really outstanding quotations from the letters should
be combined with other works of Marx and with Capital (for example, on the question of “equality” what matters most is in
Capital [2] ).
If you take question  x , then on this question there is so-and-so in the letters, so-and-so in other
works of Marx, so-and-so in Capital .

I could only glance at the letters. Of course, you will
still have to cut them clown considerably, link them up,
arrange them properly; think over each one two or three
times, and then briefly comment. Evidently there is more
work involved than it seemed at first.

The chronological order (very likely you are right) is probably more convenient.

With communist greetings, Lenin

P.S. I am on holiday. Unwell. Can’t make appointments.

If you have finished the “textbook”, you should start pushing
it. [3] Probably the quickest way is through
M.\thinspaceN. Pokrovsky.