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Letter to Alexei Lyubimov, August 18, 1909
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1974, Moscow, Volume 34, page 398.
Lyubimov, A. I. (1879â1919)âa Social-Democrat, joined the revolutionary movement in 1898. Repeatedly persecuted by the tsarist government. In 1904 was co-opted on to the CC of the RSDLP Delegate of the Partyâs Council to the Third Congress of the RSDLP Adopted a conciliatory stand towards the Mensheviks both after the Second Congress of the Party and during the years of reaction.
Dear Mark,
I am sending you for Lyova my reply to the Capriotes.[1] If he considers it necessary, let him make a copy for Inok, and then send the letter to CapriâI donât know the address. I think it could be sent in two envelopes: the outer one inscribed âSignor Massimo Gorki, Villa Blaesus, Capri, Italieâ, and the inner one: âFor the Executive Committee of the Schoolâ.
I donât know any other address.
As regards Trotsky, I must say that I shall be most vigorously opposed to helping him if he rejects (and he has already rejected it!) equality on the editorial board, proposed to him by a member of the CC Without a settlement of this question by the Executive Committee of the Bolshevik Centre, no steps to help Trotsky are permissible. Consequently, the Economic Committee is entitled to agree to the printing of Pravda[2] at the Proletary printing-press only if this will not be help for a new faction (for Trotsky is founding a new faction, whereas the Bolshevik CC member proposed to him instead that he should come into the Party) but a strictly commercial deal, for payment, as with any other person, provided the compositors are disengaged, etc. I insist most categorically that the question of the attitude to Pravda shall still be decided by the Executive Committee of the Bolshevik Centre and that pending this decision not a single step in the way of help shall be taken, nor shall we bind ourselves in any way.
All the best.
N. Lenin
P.S. Please make a copy of my letter to the Capriotes in any case. It may prove necessary for the B.C.
- â ^^See Leninâs âA Letter to the Organisers of the Party School on Capriâ (Vol. 15 of this edition).^^
The Capri school was organised in 1909 on Capri (Italy) by the otzovists, ultimatumists and god builders. The meeting of the extended editorial board of Proletary exposed the factional anti-Bolshevik nature of the school, which was condemned and qualified as âa new centre being formed for a faction breaking away from the Bolsheviksâ^^(see Vol. 15, p. 450, of this edition)^^.
The school began to function in August, lectures being read by Bogdanov, Alexinsky, Lunacharsky, Gorky, Lyadov, Pokrovsky and Desnitsky. Lenin declined the organisersâ invitation that he come to Capri as a lecturer. In his letter to the schoolâs students, who insisted on his reading a cycle of lectures to them, Lenin explained that he could not do it inasmuch as it was âa school deliberately hidden away from the Partyâ in âa remote foreign spotâ and bearing a factional character. Lenin proposed to the students that they should come to Paris where they would learn real Social-Democracy instead of the âseparatist factional âscienceââ of the otzovists and god-builders (see Vol. 15, pp. 472â78, of this edition). - â This refers to the Mensheviksâ newspaper Pravda, published in 1908â12. The first issues appeared in Lvov, and from No. 4 onward the paper came out in Vienna.