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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 />

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and prove that the fac<strong>to</strong>ry creates a class <strong>of</strong> permanent<br />

fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers.<br />

So then, the data on Russian fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers fully<br />

confirm the theory <strong>of</strong> Capital that it is large-scale machine<br />

industry that brings about a complete and definite revolution<br />

in the conditions <strong>of</strong> life <strong>of</strong> the industrial population,<br />

separating it once and for all from agriculture and from<br />

the century-old traditions <strong>of</strong> patriarchal life connected<br />

with it. But, by destroying patriarchal and pettybourgeois<br />

relationships, large-scale machine industry creates,<br />

on the other hand, conditions which draw wage-workers in<br />

agriculture and industry closer <strong>to</strong>gether: firstly, it<br />

introduces in<strong>to</strong> the rural districts generally the commercial<br />

and industrial way <strong>of</strong> life which has first arisen in the nonagricultural<br />

centres; secondly, it creates mobility <strong>of</strong> the<br />

population and large markets for the hiring <strong>of</strong> both agricultural<br />

and industrial workers; thirdly, by introducing<br />

machinery in<strong>to</strong> agriculture, large-scale machine industry<br />

brings in<strong>to</strong> the rural districts skilled industrial workers,<br />

distinguished for their higher standard <strong>of</strong> living.<br />

XII. THREE STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM<br />

IN RUSSIAN INDUSTRY<br />

Let us now sum up the main conclusions <strong>to</strong> be drawn from<br />

the data on the development <strong>of</strong> capitalism in our industry.*<br />

There are three main stages in this development: small<br />

commodity-production (small, mainly peasant industries);<br />

capitalist manufacture; and the fac<strong>to</strong>ry (large-scale<br />

machine industry). The facts utterly refute the view widespread<br />

here in Russia that “fac<strong>to</strong>ry” and “handicraft”<br />

industry are isolated from each other. On the contrary, such<br />

a division is purely artificial. The connection and continuity<br />

between the forms <strong>of</strong> industry mentioned is <strong>of</strong> the<br />

most direct and intimate kind. The facts quite clearly<br />

show that the main trend <strong>of</strong> small commodity-production is<br />

<strong>to</strong>wards the development <strong>of</strong> capitalism, in particular,<br />

<strong>to</strong>wards the rise <strong>of</strong> manufacture; and manufacture is<br />

* Confining ourselves, as stated in the preface, <strong>to</strong> the post-<br />

Reform period, we leave aside the forms <strong>of</strong> industry that were based<br />

on the labour <strong>of</strong> the serf population.

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