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Letter to Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova and Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, August 7, 1899
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 37, pages 271-272
Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova,
Cottage No. 3,
Town Park,
Podolsk,
Moscow Gubernia
August 7, 1899
I have received your letter of July 15, Mother dearest. A big merci for it and for carrying out my request in respect of Anatoly.[1] I hope to see him again in a few days; they say he is very bad, the blood is flowing from his throat and he even coughs up pieces of lung.... The Governor was in Yermakovskoye and gave Anatoly permission to go to Krasnoyarsk, but now he himself does not want to go.
We are expecting visitors todayâGleb and his wife and Basil from Minusinsk. It is said that Gleb has received permission to move to the railway and take a job as engineer. He will, of course, take advantage of the offer to get together a little money for his journey home. It would otherwise be rather difficult for him and Basil to get away from here, even impossible in winter.
We have not put in any requests after allâit doesnât seem to matter, we shall wait for January 29, 1900....[2] If only we can get away from here at that timeâwhere we shall be till then is not important.
E.E.âs health has improved. The Minusinsk people have had a good summer. A.M. has obtained a job in Minusinsk, I believe.
Many kisses for you and regards to all.
Yours,
V. U.
Manyasha,
I recently read Stammlerâs book here, in German, and felt very dissatisfied with it. In my opinion it is learned nonsense and fruitless scholasticism. It would be interesting to know who praised it to you. It is true that Struve and Bulgakov, both of whom, like Stammler, take a stand on neo-Kantianism,[3] praised it in Novoye Slovo. Stammler in my opinion is an excellent argument against neo-Kantianism. To attempt to fight Marxism armed with nothing but foolishly compiled definitions in the way Stammler does (he has never written anything but textbooks for students of Roman Law...) is too absurd an undertaking. It was correctly said in Neue Zeit (Cunow) that Stammlerâs book is of negative significance.
A few days ago I received the April issue of Nachalo and read almost all of it. It is very interesting in general and the article âOut of Turnâ in particular.
Webb (the original) we have still not received! It seems I shall have to postpone it till my return since I can get nothing done.
I have read P.N. Skvortsov on markets in Nauchnoye Obozreniye No. 7[4]âin my opinion the article contains very little and the authorâs point of view is not clear to me. My reply to Struve has still not been published[5] â the devil knows, this is disgraceful and muddleheaded!
All the best,
V. U.
- â The nature of Lenin s request in respect of A. A. Vaneyev is not known.âEd.
- â The date Leninâs term of exile ended.âEd.
- â Lenin refers here to S. Bulgakovâs article âZakon prichinnosti i svoboda chelovecheskikh deistviiâ, and P. B. Struveâs article âYeshcho o svobode i neobkhodimostiâ, published in the May (No. 8) issue of Novoye Slovo for 1897. The two articles are a continuation of the polemics between Struve and Bulgakov over the philosophy of Kant, Stammler, Zimmel and others in the journal Voprosy Filosofii i Psikhologii for 1896 and 1897. Lenin spoke of Stammler in his âUncritical Criticismâ (Collected Works, Vol. 3, pp. 609â32) and also in a letter to A. N. Potresov dated June 27, 1899 (see Collected Works, Vol. 34, p. 40).
- â This was P. Skvortsovâs article âK voprosu o rynkakh (Po povodu zametki g. Petra Struve âK voprosu o rynkakh pri kapitalisticheskom proizvodstveâ)â published in Nauchnoye Obozreniye No. 7for 1899.
- â Once More on the Theory of Realisationâ, Collected Works, Vol. 4, pp. 74â93.âEd.