V. I. Lenin

THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
OF MODERN AGRICULTURE



Written after September 11 (24), 1910
 
First published in 1932
in Lenin Miscellany XIX
Signed: V. Ilyin

Published according to  
the manuscript  
 
 
 



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1967

First published 1963
Second printing 1967

Vol. 16, pp. 423-46.

Translated from the Russian
Edited by Clemens Dutt


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

THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM OF MODERN AGRICULTURE[146]

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II.
 
III.
IV.
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VI.
 
VII.
 

A General Picture of the Economic System of Modern
Agriculture   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Real Nature of the Majority of Modern Agricultural
"Farms" (Proletarian "Farms")   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Peasant Farms Under Capitalism .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Labour of Women and Children in Agriculture .  .   .   .
Squandering of Labour in Small-Scale Production  .   .
The Capitalist Character of ther Use of Machinery in
Modern Agriculture .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Low Productivity of Labour in Small-Scale Pro-
duction and Excessive Work  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


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NOTES


Groups of farms

Total
number
of farms

Of which

Farms subdivided according to the number of workers

independ-
ent culti-
vators

wage-
workers

Total num-
ber of
such farms

The workers in them being

total

family
workers

wage-
workers

I. Less than 2 ha
II. 2-20 ha
III. 20 ha and more

3,378,509
2,071,816
285,757

474,915
1,705,448
277,060

1,822,792
117,338
737

2,669,232
2,057,577
285,331

4,353,052
7,509,735
3,306,762

3,851,905
5,898,853
870,850

501,147
1,610,882
2,435,912

Total . . . .

5,736,082

2,457,423

1,940,867

5,012,140

15,012,140

10,169,608

4,547,941



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