Letter to Nikolai Bukharin, September 27, 1922

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Comrade Bukharin,

I send you today’s Pravda. Now, why print stupidities in the guise of the article by Pletnyov,[1] who puts on pompous airs with all the learned and fashionable words he can? I have marked two stupidities and put a number of question marks. The author has to learn not “proletarian” science, but simply to learn. Can it be that the editorial board of Pravda is not going to explain the author’s mistakes to him? Why, this is falsification of historical materialism! Playing at historical materialism!

Yours,

Lenin

  1. Pletnyov, V. F. (1886–1942)—one of the leaders of the Proletcult. He and A. Bogdanov spread anti-Marxist reactionary ideas on culture and art claiming that such ideas represented “proletarian culture”. For a criticism of the views of the Proletcult supporters see present edition, Vol. 29, p. 336, and Vol. 31, pp. 316–17.