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

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432<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

veniences <strong>of</strong> communication made the transport <strong>of</strong> raw<br />

materials impossible, or extremely costly. As a result,<br />

industry had necessarily <strong>to</strong> nestle where an abundance <strong>of</strong><br />

raw material was close at hand. Hence the characteristic<br />

feature <strong>of</strong> our industry—the specialisation <strong>of</strong> commodity<br />

production in large and compact areas” (Yuridichesky<br />

Vestnik, loc. cit., p. 440).<br />

Terri<strong>to</strong>rial division <strong>of</strong> labour is not a characteristic<br />

feature <strong>of</strong> our industry, but <strong>of</strong> manufacture (both in Russia<br />

and in other countries); the small industries did not<br />

produce such extensive districts, while the fac<strong>to</strong>ry broke<br />

down their seclusion and facilitated the transfer <strong>of</strong> establishments<br />

and masses <strong>of</strong> workers <strong>to</strong> other places. Manufacture<br />

not only creates compact areas, but introduces<br />

specialisation within these areas (division <strong>of</strong> labour as <strong>to</strong><br />

wares). The availability <strong>of</strong> raw materials in the given<br />

locality is not at all essential for manufacture, and is hardly<br />

even usual for it, for manufacture presupposes fairly wide<br />

commercial intercourse.*<br />

Connected with the above-described features <strong>of</strong> manufacture<br />

is the circumstance that this stage <strong>of</strong> capitalist<br />

evolution is marked by a specific form <strong>of</strong> separation <strong>of</strong><br />

agriculture from industry. It is no longer the peasant who<br />

is the most typical industrialist, but the non-farming<br />

“artisan” (and at the other pole—the merchant and the workshop<br />

owner). In most cases (as we have seen) the industries<br />

organised on the lines <strong>of</strong> manufacture have non-agricultural<br />

centres: either <strong>to</strong>wns or (much more <strong>of</strong>ten) villages,<br />

whose inhabitants hardly engage in agriculture at all,<br />

and which should be classed as settlements <strong>of</strong> a commercial<br />

and industrial character. The separation <strong>of</strong> industry<br />

from agriculture is here deeply rooted in the technique <strong>of</strong><br />

manufacture, in its economy, and in the peculiarities<br />

<strong>of</strong> its way <strong>of</strong> life (or culture). Technique ties the worker<br />

<strong>to</strong> one trade and therefore, on the one hand, renders him<br />

unfit for agriculture (physically weak, etc.), and, on the<br />

* Imported (i.e., not local) raw material is used in the weaving<br />

industries, the Pavlovo and Gzhel industries, the Perm leather<br />

industries, and many others (cf. Studies, pp. 122-124). (See present<br />

edition, <strong>Vol</strong>. 2, The Handicraft Census <strong>of</strong> 1894-95 in Perm<br />

Gubernia.—Ed.)

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