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Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. III, Moscow, 1959, p. 245. p. 57
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E. Bernstein’s Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus und die
Aufgaben der Sozialdemokratie (The Premises of Socialism and
the Tasks of Social-Democracy), which revised the principles of
revolutionary Marxism in the spirit of bourgeois reformism,
appeared in 1899. Lenin received a copy of it when the first
edition of his The Development of Capitalism in Russia had
appeared, so that it was only in the second edition that he
was able to include his remarks on Bernstein’s opportunist views.
Lenin calls Bernstein “famous after the fashion of Herostratos.”
Tradition has it that Herostratos, a Greek who lived in the 4th
century B. C., set fire to the noted temple of Artemis in his native
town of Ephesus for the sole purpose of becoming known to
posterity. The name of Herostratos has become an epithet applied
to individuals who are ready to commit crime for the sake of
winning fame. p. 57
Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. III, Moscow, 1959, pp. 472-73. p. 58
Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. III, Moscow, 1959, p. 299. p. 58
Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. III, Moscow, 1959, p. 822. Lenin’s remark
on errors in the translation of Capital refers to the translation
by N. —on (Danielson), 1896. p. 60
Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. II, Moscow, 1957, Preface by Frederick
Engels, p. 17. p. 62
Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. III, Moscow, 1959, pp. 818-819. p. 64
Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. III, Moscow, 1959, pp. 821-824. p. 64
Volgin—pseudonym of G. V. Plekhanov. The work here cited
is included in Vol. IX of his Works. p. 65
Zemstvo house-to-house censuses were investigations of peasant
farms undertaken by statistical agencies of the Zemstvos or rural
government bodies. These censuses, which were conducted mainly
for taxation purposes, became very common in the 1880s. The
household censuses provided a wealth of factual material which
was published in statistical abstracts covering the different
gubernias and their uyezds or subdivisions. The Zemstvo
statisticians, however, many of whom were Narodniks, were very
often biased in the way they processed the statistical data and
classified them incorrectly, thereby robbing them of much
of their value. “Here is the weakest spot in our Zemstvo statistics,
splendid as they are for the care and detail with which they
are compiled,” wrote Lenin. (See present edition, Vol. 20.) Phenomena
of the economic type were hidden under piles of figures