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

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330<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

capitalism: fortunately, he says, there is still enough uncultivated<br />

prairie land left <strong>to</strong> enable things <strong>to</strong> continue as<br />

they have been doing. But our good Mr. N. —on, à propos<br />

des bottes,* sighs for the “muzhik cultiva<strong>to</strong>r” <strong>of</strong> yore, for<br />

the “time-hallowed” . . . stagnation <strong>of</strong> our agriculture and<br />

<strong>of</strong> all the various forms <strong>of</strong> agricultural bondage which<br />

“neither the strife among the appanage princes nor the Tartar<br />

invasion” could shake, and which now—oh, horror!—are<br />

beginning <strong>to</strong> be most thoroughly shaken by this monstrous<br />

capitalism! O, sancta simplicitas!<br />

* Without rhyme or reason.—Ed.

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