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rats they have lenin's reply but not her original letter, where she talks about free love. that lenin, quite a free-spirited guy :-/ http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jan/17.htm Dear friend, I would very much advise you to be more explicit in the draft of your pamphlet; otherwise too much remains unclear. I want to express my opinion now on one of the points you make. I suggest you entirely throw out paragraph 3 "demand (by the woman) for free love". This is indeed not a proletarian but a bourgeois demand. What do you really mean by it? What can one mean by it? (1) Freedom from material (financial) calculations in love? from : (2) material cares? (3) religious prejudices? (4) paternal injunctions, etc.? (5) the prejudices of "society"? (6) a petty milieu (peasant, petty bourgeois, bourgeois intellectual)? (7) the toils of the law, the courts, the police? (8) serious problems in love (9) childbirth (10) that this makes possible adultery, etc. I have made a number of points (not all, of course). I don't think you mean points 8 to 10, but rather points 1 to 7, or something approximating to points 1 to 7. For these points 1 to 7, however, you should choose some other connota- tion, since the term "free love" does not exactly express these concepts. The public and the readers of the pamphlet will inevitably understand something like points 8 to 10, even if that was not your intention. Because the noisiest and most talkative classes in contemporary society, those of the "social set", understand by free love points 8 to 10, your demand is bourgeois, not proletarian. For the proletariat the most important points are, firstly 1 and 2, and then 1 to 7, but these do not really embody the term "free love". The question is not what "you would like to understand" by this subjectively. The question is the objective logic of class relations in love. http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jan/24.htm Don't you know any French socialist woman? Translate to her (as if translating from the English) my points 1 to 10 and your remarks on "transient" love and so on. Watch her and listen attentively to her: it is a little experience to know what outside people think of things, what their impressions will be and what they expect of the pamphlet.
