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…
Russia Didn't Interfere in the Brexit Vote?
So, we are supposed to believe that Russia didn't interfere in the Brexit vote? Yeah right! The Tory report into Russian interference says the …
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 …
Russian Hacking
The newspapers and TV, yesterday, were full of stories about Russian hackers stealing secrets from British labs working on coronavirus vaccines. The…
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…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 10
Lenin makes the point that an objection that, in the given example, the proportion of wage workers is high is irrelevant, because what is being discu…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 9
Back in the 1950's, the economist Colin Clark demonstrated that if all of global agriculture was undertaken on the same basis as that in Denmark …
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 8
The Narodniks neither wanted to acknowledge that the small-scale “people's production” was capitalist, nor that the exploitation of the workers w…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 7
Pretty much the only example taken from reality, provided by Krivenko is the brick industry. His argument is that there are a number of industries in…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 6
“It is therefore obvious that the stock argument of there being no capitalism in our country since “the people own land” is quite meaningless, becaus…