V. I. Lenin

A CHARACTERISATION
OF ECONOMIC ROMANTICISM

    (SISMONDI AND OUR NATIVE SISMONDISTS )[
44]



Written in spring 1897
 
First published in the
magazine Novoye Slovo,[45]
issues 7-10, April-July 1897.
Signed: K. T-n
 
Reprinted in the miscellany
Economic Studies and Essays
by Vladimir Ilyin, 1898

Published according to
the text of the miscellany
Economic Studies and Essays,
checked with the text in
Novoyo Slovo and that
in the miscellany
The Agrarian Question
by Vladimir Ilyin, 1908
 
 



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972,

First printing 1960
Second printing 1963
Third printing 1972

Vol. 2, pp. 129-265.

Translated from the Russian
Edited by George Hanna


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo,
djr@marx2mao.org (May 1997)
(Corrected and Updated September 2001)

A CHARACTERISATION OF ECONOMIC ROMANTICISM
(Sismondi and Our Native Sismondists) .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


129

  Chapter I. The Economic Theories of Romanticism .   .   .   .

134

     I.
 
II.
III.
 
IV.
 
V.
VI.
 
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
 

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 Errors of Adam Smith's and Sismon-
di's Theories of National Revenue?  .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Accumulation in Capitalist Society .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Foreign Market as the "Way out of the Difficulty"
of Realizing Surplus-Value .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Crisis   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Capitalist Rent and Capitalist Overpopulation   .   .   .
Machines in Capitalist Society   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Protection .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Sismondi's Place in the History of Political Economy  .
Postscript .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


135
140

146

150
154

161
166
174
184
192
199
207

  Chapter II.   The Character of the Romanticists' Criticism
     of Capitalism  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


208

I.
II.
III.
 
IV.
V.
VI.
 

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.  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

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220

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239

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