Dear colleagues!

Today, I finally received a set of "Pravda" for the last few days, or rather, for the last week. I am very grateful and congratulate you on your success: in my opinion, the newspaper has now found its feet. The improvement is enormous and serious - let us hope it is lasting and final. The question of the length of Plekhanov's articles and the abundance of anti-liquidationism (about which one worker deputy writes) are now minor issues; once the newspaper is firmly established, it will not be difficult to make corrections, and I think that local workers will immediately see how to make these adjustments. We also received a detailed letter from one contributor (unfortunately, lacking the pleasant "deputy" quality) and were very pleased, congratulating on all kinds of successes. It seems that now (and only now, after St-*'s adventure) the period of vacillation is over... if only we don't jinx it!!

I do not advise issuing ultimatums to Plekhanov: it is too early! It could be harmful!! If you write to him, be more courteous and gentle. He is valuable now because he is fighting against the enemies of the workers' movement.

Regarding Demian Bedny, I continue to support him. Do not nitpick, friends, about human weaknesses! Talent is rare. It must be systematically and carefully supported. It would be a sin, a great sin (a hundred times greater than various personal "sins," if there are any...) against the working democracy if you do not attract and help a talented contributor. The conflicts were minor, but the matter is serious. Think about this!

Regarding expansion, I wrote in detail recently to the enlightener; I hope you have also seen this letter. I also support financial caution: the same six pages (of the current inserts) should be given in a different way, with a different sauce and content: 4 pages

* The person referred to has not been identified. Ed.

To K. HUYSMANS. JUNE 1913 of a Sunday supplement for the advanced + 2 pages of "worker's kopeck" for 1 kopeck, for the masses, to win 100,000 readers, with extremely popular content. We should not imitate "Luch," but go our own way, the proletarian way: 4 pages for advanced workers and 2 pages (or even 4 later) for the masses, for a long and persistent struggle for 100,000 readers. We must reach out both broadly and deeply into the masses, not to intellectual examples like "Luch."

Once again: greetings, congratulations, and best wishes.

Yours, V. I.

A special greeting to Vitimsky: his article on the workers' press and workers' democracy against the liberals was very successful!! 212 And Bogdanov's "Ideology" is surely heresy: I promise to prove this to you exactly!! 213
Marxists are glad when the circulation increases in a Marxist way - with Marxist articles, not articles against Marxism. We want an ideological newspaper - all contributors and readers of "Pravda" want this - a Marxist, not a Machist one? Isn't that right?

P.S. The address is not Paronen, but Poronin (Galicia), and it is essential to add on the package: route: Warsaw - Border - Zakopane.