The Agrarian Question and Socialism

Max Sering

Chapter 6 in Paths of Development in Capitalist Agriculture, 1984, pp 68-94 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The central error of the Kautskyan edifice lies in an incorrect conception of the relative efficiency of the large as compared with the small agricultural enterprise. Anyone who wishes to make this evaluation and derive therefrom tendencies of social development cannot limit himself to enumerating certain advantages offered by the large or small enterprise, or indeed lauding the merits of one party only, as is Kautsky’s habit. He must rather base himself on an exhaustive knowledge of the actual performances of large and small enterprises under conditions which are different but in each case equivalent for both. Then he must make an abstraction from all accidental factors and bring his ordered observations into a logical connection with the nature of agricultural production and the principles of its technical development, on the one hand, and the nature of the large and the small enterprise, on the other.

Keywords: Small Farm; Intensive Agriculture; Large Farm; Small Enterprise; Large Enterprise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04743-7_6

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