Date: 1908
Source: ru:PSS/v48
Source: CW vol 48

Dear Comrade!

You would do me a great favor if you could send me both issues of the "Bremer Burger-Zeitung" in which you publish your review of R. Luxemburg's book. Enclosed is an international reply coupon = 20 pfennigs.

I am very pleased that on the main point you come to the same conclusion as I did in my polemic with Tugan-Baranovsky and the "Volkstumler" 14 years ago, namely, that the realization of surplus value is possible even in a "purely capitalist" society**. I have not yet seen R. Luxemburg's book, but theoretically you

* - Best regards. Ed.

** See V. I. Lenin, "A Note on the Question of the Theory of Markets (On the Polemic between Messrs. Tugan-Baranovsky and Bulgakov)" (Collected Works, 5th ed., Vol. 4, pp. 44-54). Ed.