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Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 3 - From Marx to Mao

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152<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

Now let us take the items <strong>of</strong> income*:<br />

from agriculture<br />

56<br />

Average income per farm Items <strong>of</strong> income from “industries<br />

from “industries”<br />

balance from<br />

previous years<br />

Total<br />

“from personalindustries”<br />

“from carting”<br />

“from industrialestablishments<br />

and<br />

undertakings”<br />

“miscellaneous<br />

incomes”<br />

a) 57.11 59.04 1.95 118.10 36.75 — — 22.29<br />

b) 127.69 49.22 1.21 178.12 35.08 6 2.08 6.06<br />

c) 287.40 108.21 34.11 429.72 64.59 17.65 14.41 11.56<br />

d) 469.52 146.67 110 753.19 48.77 22.22 48.88 26.80<br />

e) 698.06 247.60 33 978.66 112 100 35 0.60<br />

f) 698.39 975.20 93.20 1,766.79 146 34 754.40 40.80<br />

292.74 164.67 34.03 491.44 59.09 19.36 70.75 15.47<br />

Thus, income from “industries” exceeds the gross income<br />

from agriculture in the two extreme groups: the proletarianhorseless<br />

peasant, and the rural entrepreneur. The “personal<br />

industries” <strong>of</strong> the bot<strong>to</strong>m peasant groups consist, <strong>of</strong><br />

course, mainly <strong>of</strong> work for hire, while income from the<br />

leasing <strong>of</strong> land is an important item in the “miscellaneous<br />

incomes.” The group <strong>of</strong> “independent farmers” even includes<br />

those whose income from the leasing <strong>of</strong> land is slightly<br />

less, and sometimes even more, than the gross income from<br />

agriculture. For example, in the case <strong>of</strong> one horseless peasant,<br />

the gross income from agriculture is 61.9 rubles, and from<br />

the leasing <strong>of</strong> land 40 rubles; in the case <strong>of</strong> another, the<br />

income from agriculture is 31.9 rubles and from the leasing <strong>of</strong><br />

land 40 rubles. It must not be forgotten, furthermore,<br />

that the income from the leasing <strong>of</strong> land and from farm<br />

labouring goes entirely <strong>to</strong> cover the personal needs <strong>of</strong> the<br />

“peasant,” while from the gross agricultural income we must<br />

deduct expenditure on the conduct <strong>of</strong> the farm. After making<br />

this deduction, we shall find that the net income <strong>of</strong> the<br />

* The item “balances from previous years” consists <strong>of</strong> grain (in<br />

kind) and cash; here the <strong>to</strong>tal figures are given, as we are dealing<br />

with gross expenditure and income, in cash and kind.<br />

The four columns relating <strong>to</strong> “industries” are copied from the<br />

Returns, which give no other information about the “industries.” Let<br />

us observe that in group e, carting should obviously be put under<br />

the heading <strong>of</strong> industrial establishments; it furnishes two members<br />

<strong>of</strong> this group with 250 rubles income each, and one <strong>of</strong> them employs<br />

a farm labourer.

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