Lenin and the"Concretization"of the Methodology of Critique in Political Economy——A Textual Discussion Based on The Development of Capitalism in Russia
The method of"from the abstract to the concrete"in the critique of political economy has always been a popular syntax among the Western left in interpreting The Capital.However,they generally overlook the issue of the"starting point"in the process"from the abstract to the concrete".This theoretical task is pre-cisely what Marx aimed to accomplish in the section on"Primitive Accumulation"in The Capital,with Britain as a case study.Looking back at the history of Marxism,Lenin's discourse in The Development of Capitalism in Russia indeed fulfilled Marx's desire to examine Russian capitalism to supplement the evidence in The Capital,enriching the starting point problem"from the concrete to the abstract".Lenin argued for the inevita-bility of the development of capitalism in Russia due to objective necessity,the disintegration of peasants and bankruptcy of small producers as inevitable parts of this development,and the fact that Russia's inability to realize surplus value was not due to the lack of foreign markets.He demonstrated the inevitability of the pro-cess of primitive accumulation in capitalism and the consistency with the ultimate replacement of capitalism by socialism,thus achieving the"concretization"of the critique methodology in political economy.
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