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

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA<br />

187<br />

the more completely bondage, usury, labour-service, etc.,<br />

are forced out, the more pr<strong>of</strong>oundly will the differentiation<br />

<strong>of</strong> the peasantry proceed.* Above we have shown, on the<br />

basis <strong>of</strong> Zemstvo statistics, that this differentiation is<br />

already an accomplished fact, that the peasantry have<br />

completely split up in<strong>to</strong> opposite groups.<br />

* Incidentally. In speaking <strong>of</strong> Mr. V. V.’s The Destiny <strong>of</strong> Capitalism,<br />

and particularly <strong>of</strong> Chapter VI, from which the quotation is<br />

taken, one cannot but indicate that it contains very good and quite<br />

fair pages. These are the pages where the author does not deal with<br />

the “destiny <strong>of</strong> capitalism” and not even with capitalism at all, but<br />

with the methods <strong>of</strong> exacting taxes. It is characteristic that Mr. V. V.<br />

does not notice the inseparable connection between these methods<br />

and the survivals <strong>of</strong> corvée economy, which latter (as we shall see<br />

below) he is capable <strong>of</strong> idealising!

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