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…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 5
As Marx points out in Theories of Surplus Value, this period of primitive capital accumulation is not at all characterised by the employment or accum…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 4
“In Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia there are in all 2,552 handicraftsmen producing this sort of cutlery, of whom 48% (1,236) work for the market, 42% (1,05…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 3
The Narodniks also tried to present the handicraft producers, in Russia, as not being capitalist. Marx, in his historical analysis of the development…
What The Friends of The People Are, Part III - Part 2
“In another passage he contrasts “small-scale people’s industry” to “large-scale, capitalist industry.” If you were to ask what is the distinguishing…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part III - Part 1
In Part II, Lenin examined the economic objections of Yuzhakov to materialism and Marxism, in a similar way to his examination of Mikhailovsky's …
What The Friends of the People Are, Part I - Part 31 of 31
Here, for the first time, we also see Lenin making the statement that the Russian state was a bourgeois state, an organ of rule by the bourgeoisie. N…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part I - Part 30 of 31
Lenin then picks up Mikhailovsky in relation to the point made earlier that rather than dealing with the arguments put forward by the actual Marxists…
What The Friends of the People Are, Part I - Part 29 of 31
On the one hand, the reformist wing of the labour movement absorbs itself in Economistic attempts to merely ameliorate workers' condition within …
What The Friends of the People Are, Part I - Part 28 of 31
The reality, even in Marx's time, was that capitalism, itself, had wrought these changes in the productive and social relations, which, as Lenin …