Concerning The So-Called Question Of Markets
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Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; fold-out diagram intact; pages can have notes and/or underlining in grey lead; some stains on the front cover; worn spine
Written in 1893 but suppressed for decades, Concerning the So-Called Question of Markets stands as one of V. I. Lenin's earliest and most incisive works of Marxist economic theory, in which the young revolutionary dismantles the Narodnik critique of capitalist development in Russia and argues with razor-sharp precision that the growth of domestic markets is an inherent and inevitable feature of capitalism itself. Lenin presents a systematic refutation of his populist contemporaries, demonstrating through rigorous Marxist analysis how the expansion of capitalist production necessarily generates new markets, not through external demand alone, but through the internal dynamic of capital accumulation and the division of labour. Beyond its immediate polemical target, the work illustrates Lenin's extraordinary command of Marxist political economy at a remarkably young age, foreshadowing the theoretical power he would bring to bear in his later masterwork, The Development of Capitalism in Russia. His prose is methodical and uncompromising, deploying the dialectical method with a clarity that strips away ideological sentiment in favour of structural economic logic. Published in Moscow in 1954 by the Foreign Languages Publishing House as part of the broader Soviet effort to disseminate Lenin's collected writings internationally, this pamphlet raises a question that remains provocative: can any economic system truly escape the gravitational pull of market forces?
Author: V. I. Lenin
Format: Paperback
Published: 1954, Foreign Languages Publishing House
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; fold-out diagram intact; pages can have notes and/or underlining in grey lead; some stains on the front cover; worn spine
Written in 1893 but suppressed for decades, Concerning the So-Called Question of Markets stands as one of V. I. Lenin's earliest and most incisive works of Marxist economic theory, in which the young revolutionary dismantles the Narodnik critique of capitalist development in Russia and argues with razor-sharp precision that the growth of domestic markets is an inherent and inevitable feature of capitalism itself. Lenin presents a systematic refutation of his populist contemporaries, demonstrating through rigorous Marxist analysis how the expansion of capitalist production necessarily generates new markets, not through external demand alone, but through the internal dynamic of capital accumulation and the division of labour. Beyond its immediate polemical target, the work illustrates Lenin's extraordinary command of Marxist political economy at a remarkably young age, foreshadowing the theoretical power he would bring to bear in his later masterwork, The Development of Capitalism in Russia. His prose is methodical and uncompromising, deploying the dialectical method with a clarity that strips away ideological sentiment in favour of structural economic logic. Published in Moscow in 1954 by the Foreign Languages Publishing House as part of the broader Soviet effort to disseminate Lenin's collected writings internationally, this pamphlet raises a question that remains provocative: can any economic system truly escape the gravitational pull of market forces?