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

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162<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

commercial and industrial enterprises.* It is not difficult<br />

<strong>to</strong> see, firstly, that it is wrong <strong>to</strong> compare farmers <strong>of</strong> this<br />

type with cultiva<strong>to</strong>rs pure and simple, and, secondly, that<br />

agriculture under such circumstances very <strong>of</strong>ten only seems<br />

<strong>to</strong> be natural economy. When agriculture is combined with<br />

the technical processing <strong>of</strong> agricultural produce (flourmilling,<br />

oil-pressing, pota<strong>to</strong>-starch manufacture, distilling,<br />

etc.), the money income from such farming may be<br />

assigned <strong>to</strong> income from the industrial establishments and not<br />

from agriculture. Actually, indeed, the agriculture in this<br />

case will be commercial, not natural, economy. The same<br />

thing has <strong>to</strong> be said <strong>of</strong> the farm in which a mass <strong>of</strong> agricultural<br />

produce is consumed in kind on the maintenance<br />

<strong>of</strong> farm labourers and <strong>of</strong> horses employed on some industrial<br />

enterprise (for example, mail-carrying). And it is<br />

precisely this type <strong>of</strong> farm that we have among the <strong>to</strong>p group<br />

(budget No. 1 in Koro<strong>to</strong>yak Uyezd. Family <strong>of</strong> 18 persons,<br />

4 working members, 5 farm labourers, 20 horses; income<br />

from agriculture—1,294 rubles, nearly all in kind, and<br />

from industrial enterprises—2,675 rubles. And such a<br />

“natural-economy peasant farm” is combined with the<br />

horseless and one-horse farms for the purpose <strong>of</strong> striking<br />

a general “average”). This example shows us once again<br />

how important it is <strong>to</strong> combine classification according<br />

<strong>to</strong> scale and type <strong>of</strong> agricultural activity with classification<br />

according <strong>to</strong> scale and type <strong>of</strong> “industrial” activity.<br />

(C) Let us now examine the data on the peasants’<br />

standard <strong>of</strong> living. Expenditure on food in kind is given<br />

incompletely in the Returns. We single out the most<br />

important items: agricultural produce and meat.**<br />

* Of the 12 horseless peasants not one obtains any income from<br />

industrial establishments and undertakings; <strong>of</strong> the 18 with one horse<br />

each, one does; <strong>of</strong> the 17 with two horses two do; <strong>of</strong> the 9 with three<br />

horses three do; <strong>of</strong> the 5 with four horses two do; <strong>of</strong> the 5 owning more<br />

than 4 horses four do.<br />

** Under this head we combine the following items in the Returns:<br />

beef, mut<strong>to</strong>n, pork and lard. Where other cereals are calculated in<br />

terms <strong>of</strong> rye it is according <strong>to</strong> the standards in Yanson’s Comparative<br />

Statistics adopted by the Nizhni-Novgorod statisticians (see Material<br />

for Gorba<strong>to</strong>v Uyezd. Basis <strong>of</strong> calculation: percentage <strong>of</strong> absorbable<br />

protein). 62

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