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

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example, ready-made clothing. We have spoken above of the
wide extent of such industry in Russia, of the conditions
peculiar to it and of the reason for considering it more
correct to describe it in the chapter on manufacture.
In order to give anything like a full description of the
appendage to the factory one needs complete statistics on the
occupations of the population, or monographic descriptions
of the entire economic life of factory centres and their environs.
But even the fragmentary data with which we have had
to content ourselves show the incorrectness of the opinion
widespread here that factory industry is isolated from other
forms of industry, that the factory population is isolated
from the population not employed in factories. The development
of forms of industry, like that of all social relationships
in general, cannot but proceed very gradually, among a
mass of interlocking, transitional forms and seeming reversions
to the past. Thus, the growth of small industries may
express (as we have seen) the progress of capitalist manufacture;
now we see that the factory, too, may sometimes
develop small industries. Work for the “buyer-up,” is also
an appendage to both the manufactory and the factory.
To give a proper assessment of the significance of such phenomena,
we must consider them in conjunction with the
whole structure of industry at the given stage of its
development and with the main trends of this development.
XI. THE COMPLETE SEPARATION OF INDUSTRY
FROM AGRICULTURE
The complete separation of industry from agriculture
is effected only by large-scale machine industry. The Russian
facts fully confirm this thesis, which was established
by the author of Capital for other countries,* but which
is usually ignored by the Narodnik economists. Mr. N. —on
in his Sketches talks in and out of season about “the separation
of industry from agriculture,” without, however,
taking the trouble to examine, on the basis of precise data,
* Das Kapital, I 2 , S. 779-780. 159