Capitalism and Agriculture

This selection of V.I. Lenin’s writings on capitalism and agriculture is reprinted from the 1946 edition published by International Publishers, New York. The footnotes by the editor are prepared by International Publishers. In capitalism and agriculture, Lenin deals with a Narodnik writer who had criticised Kautsky’s book on the Agrarian question (written at a time when Kautsky was still a Marxist). Lenin makes clear a number of fundamental characteristics of development of capitalist in agriculture — the proportion of constant to variable capital increases in agriculture, as in industry; there takes place a concentration of land-ownership in the hands of…