V. I. Lenin

THE AGRARIAN QUESTION
AND THE
"CRITICS OF MARX"



Written  in  June-September 1901
Chapters I to IV were first published
in Zarya, No. 2-3,  December 1901,
signed  N. Lenin;  Chapters  V to IX
were published in Obrazovaniye,[57]
No. 2,   February   1906,   signed
N. Lenin

  Published according to the  Zarya
  and  Obrazovaniye texts, checked
  with the text of the collection The
  Agrarian Question
, by Vl. Ilyin,
  1908




From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1961

Vol. 5, pp. 103-222.

Translated by Joe Fineberg and by George Hanna
Edited by Victor Jerome


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (May 1997)


C O N T E N T S


I

The "Law" of Diminishing Returns  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

107

II

The Theory of Rent  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

119

III

Machinery in Agriculture .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

130

IV

The Abolition of the Antithesis Between Town and
Country. Particular Questions Raised by the "Critics"  .  .


146

V

"The Prosperity of Advanced, Modern Small Farms".
The Baden Example  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .


159

VI

The Productivity of a Small and a Big Farm.
An Example from East Prussia . . .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .


167

VII

The Inquiry into Peasant Farming in Baden . .  .  .  .  .  .

182

VIII

General Statistics of German Agriculture for 1882
and 1895. The Question of the Medium Farms .  .  .  .  .  .


194

IX


Dairy Farming and Agricultural Co-operative Societies
in Germany. The Agricultural Population in Germany
Divided According to Its Position in the Economy .  .  .  .



205

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