V. I. Lenin

THE DEVELOPMENT OF
CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA

The Process of the Formation of a
Home Market for Large-Scale Industry

[Part 1 -- Prefaces and Chapter I]



  Written in 1896-99.
 
  First printed in book
  form at the end of
  March 1899

    Published according to the text
    of the second edition
 
 
 



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

Vol. 3, pp. 21-603.

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


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo,
djr@cruzio.com (November 1997)


C O N T E N T S

[Part 1]
 

Preface to the First Edition .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

 25


Preface to the Second Edition   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
 

31
 

Chapter I.  T h e   T h e o r e t i c a l   M i s t a k e s   o f   t h e
            N a r o d n i k   E c o n o m i s t s .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .


37

I.

The Social Division of Labour .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

37


 

  The increase in the number of industries 37-38. -- The creation of a home market as a result of the social division of labour 38. -- The manifestation of this process in agriculture 38-39. -- The views of the Narodnik economists 39.


II.
 

The Growth of the Industrial Population at the Expense of the Agricultural .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


40



  The necessary connection between this phenomenon and the very na-
ture of commodity and capitalist economy 40-41.


III.

The Ruin of the Small Producers .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

41



  The mistaken view of the Narodniks 41. -- The view of the author of Capital on this subject 42.


IV.
 

The Narodnik Theory of the Impossibility of Realising Surplus-Value   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


43



  The substance of the theory of Messrs. V. V. and N.-on: its erroneous character 43-45. -- The "foreign market" is wrongly dragged into the problem of realisation 46. -- The superficial estimation of the contra-
dictions of capitalism by the writers mentioned 47.


V.
 
 

The Views of Adam Smith on the Production and Circula-
tion of the Aggreagte Social Product in Capitalst Society
and Marx's Criticism of These Views .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


 
47



  Adam Smith's omission of constant capital 47-49. -- The influence of this error on the theory of the national revenue 49-51.


VI.

Marx's Theory of Realisation .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

51



  The basis premises of Marx's theory 51-52. -- The realisation of the product under simple reproduction 52-53. -- The main conclusion from Marx's theory of realisation 54-55. -- The significance of productive consumption 55-56. -- The contradiction between the urge towards the unlimited growth of production and the limited character of consump-
tion 56-58.


VII.

The Theory of the National Income .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

58



  Proudhon 59-60. -- Rodbertus 60-62. -- Contemporary econo-
mists 62. -- Marx 63-63.


  VIII.

Why Does the Capitalist Nation Need a Foreign Market? .   .

64



  The causes of the need for a foreign market 64-66. -- The foreign market and the progressive character of capitalism 66-67.


IX.

Conclusions from Chapter I  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

67



  Résumé of the propositions examined above 67-68. -- The essence of the problem of the home market 69.
 





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