Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

212V. I. LENINFROM MARXTO MAOexpress* the scale of livestock farming, there is no doubtthat here as well we would see the process of concentrationwhich the bourgeois professors and opportunistsdeny.Still more interesting are the corresponding figures oftotal cattle. We can supplement the comparison of thefigures of 1893 and 1898 made by the compilers of the 1898statistics with the returns of the census of July 17, 1876.(Danmarks Statistik. Statistik Tabelvaerk, 4-de Raekke,litra C, Nr. 1. Kreaturholdet d. 17 juli, 1876, København,1878.) Here are the figures for the three years.These figures, covering a longer period of time and amore important type of livestock, illustrate the process ofcapitalist concentration as graphically as those previouslyquoted. The growth of livestock farming in Denmark indicatesthe progress almost exclusively of large-scale capitalistfarming. The total livestock increase between 1876⋆and 1898 was 424,000 head. Of these, 76,000 belonged tofarms having 50 head and more, and 303,000 to farms havingfrom 15 to 49 head each, i.e., these upper 38,000 farmsgained 379,000 head, or nearly nine-tenths of the total increase.No more striking picture of capitalist concentrationcould be imagined.The total number of cattle-owning farms increased between1876 and 1898 by 12,645 (180,641-167,996), or by7.5 per cent. The total population of Denmark increasedbetween 1880 and 1901NOT(i.e., duringFORa slightly shorter periodof time) from 1,969,039 to 2,449,540,** i.e., by 24.4per cent. Clearly, COMMERCIALthe relative number of “haves”, i.e.,owners of livestock, diminished. The smaller part of thepopulation belongs to the class of property-owners. Thenumber of smallest DISTRIBUTIONowners (one to three head of livestock)steadily diminished. The number of medium-small owners(with 4 to 14 head) increased very slowly (+12.5 per centbetween 1876 and 1893, + 2.5 per cent between 1893 and* We showed above, according to Drechsler’s figures, that thelivestock in the big farms are bigger. Here too, therefore, the overallstatistics minimize the degree of concentration.** In 1880, the urban population constituted 28 per cent, and in1901, 38 per cent.