A Characterisation of Economic Romanticism : (Sismondi and our Native Sismondists) by V I Lenin - 1977-01-01

Moscow : Progress Publishers, 1977-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Progress Publishers, Moscow [Published Date: 1977]. 4th Printing, 1977. Publisher’s Note: The translation is taken from Volume 2 of the English edition of V.I. Lenin’s Collected Works in 45 volumes prepared by Progress Publishers, Moscow. Corrections have been made in accordance with the Fifth Russian edition of the Collected Works. Includes laid-in ERATTA slip. In very good condition. Green paper covers with black and cream lettering on front. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners of covers and light overall scuffing and soling. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. The essay "A Characterisation of Economic Romanticism" was written by Lenin while in exile in Siberia in the spring of 1897. It appeared in four issues (Nos. 7-10) of the "legal Marxist" magazine Novove Slovo (New Word ) for April-July 1897, over the signature K. T-n. It was included later in the miscellany entitled Economic Studies and Essays by Vladimir Ilyin which appeared in October 1898 (though the date given on the cover and the title-page is 1899). Contents include: Chapter 1. THE ECONOMIC THEORIES OF ROMANTICISM: Does the Home Market Shrink Because of the Ruination of the Small Producers? Sismondi’s Views on National Revenue and Capital; Sismondi’s Conclusions from the Fallacious Theory of Two Parts of the Annual Product in Capitalist Society; Wherein Lies the Error of Adam Smith’s and Sismondi’s Theories of National Revenue?; Accumulation in Capitalist Society; The Foreign Market as the “Way out of the Difficulty” of Realising Surplus-Value; Crisis; Capitalist Rent and Capitalist Overpopulation; Machines in Capitalist Society; Protection; Sismondi’s Place in the History of Political Economy; Postscript; Chapter II. THE CHARACTER OF THE ROMANTICISTS’ CRITICISM OF CAPITALISM: The Sentimental Criticism of Capitalism; The Petty-Bourgeois Character of Romanticism; The Problem of the Growth of the Industrial Population at the Expense of the Agricultural Population; Practical Proposals of Romanticism; The Reactionary Character of Romanticism; Corn Tariffs in England as Appraised by Romanticism and by Scientific Theory; Notes