Abstract

The recently published Thirty-Eighth Leninist Collection (1) contains hitherto unknown materials by V. I. Lenin on problems pertaining to reproduction. Dating back to 1913, they are the drafts of a plan and materials for a work on E. Luxemburg's book The Accumulation of Capital. Even though the plan to write a new work on accumulation was not carried out, the preparatory materials are of great scholarly interest, introduce us to Lenin's creative laboratory, and hold great importance for the study of expanded reproduction. Lenin's documents - especially the four tables cited - characterize different aspects of reproduction in precapitalist formations under capitalism and socialism. Scrutinized in particular are the two departments of social production, national income, accumulation, consumption, the gross social product, and constant and variable capital. Other new features include the very detailed characterization of socialist reproduction, the quantitative expression of levels of socialist production an...

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