What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 19
“I have dwelt once more in such detail on the differentiation of the peasants and handicraftsmen just because it was necessary to bring out clearly h…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 18
For the Narodniks there was none of this analysis. Instead, as Lenin says, the expropriation of the peasant is explained simply on the basis of the a…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 17
The Narodniks attempted to base their argument on the concept of land poverty, of an inadequate allotment size. They attempted to prove this by compa…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 16
For Lenin, and the Russian Marxists, the analysis of reality was quite clear. Capitalism was established in Russia, and it was capitalism that explai…
What The Friends of The People Are, Part III - Part 15
But, even having been forced into these correct conclusions, having failed to analyse the actual extent to which capitalism now pervaded the economy …
What The Friends of The People Are, Part III - Part 14
The data shows that the condition for the middle peasants is one of permanent instability. For the mass of poor peasants, it shows their expropriatio…
What The Friends of The People Are, Part III - Part 13
Lenin points out that it would, of course, be wrong to conclude, purely on the data for these 24 farms, that the thesis that the size of allotment wa…
What The Friends of The People Are, Part III - Part 12
The middle peasants, by contrast, could barely subsist. They obtain 19% of their income from “industries”. Of the seven households, only two engaged …
What The Friends of The People Are, Part III, Part 11
Lenin goes on to describe how, as a result of competition, “savings” accumulate in the hands of the larger producers, which are then transformed into…
A Reply To Fredtorssander
This is the last of the replies to comments on Michael Roberts' Blog that I promised to provide last week. It covers a number of issues.
The disc…
A Reply To Jlowrie
As promised last week, I set out, here, a reply to the comments of Jlowrie on Michael Roberts' Blog that I was unable to present there. Roberts h…