in the contracts. This is called here the contract system. The advantage of this system is that it is profitable to both sides, and links up the peasant economy with industry directly without middlemen. This system is the surest way to the collectivisation of the peasant economy.
One cannot say that other branches of agriculture have already reached this stage of development. But one can safely say that all branches of agriculture, including corn production, will gradually take this form of development. And this is the direct road to the collectivisation of agriculture.
All-embracing collectivisation will come when peasant farms are reorganised on a new technical basis—mechanisation and electrification, when most of the working peasants will be co-ordinated in co-operative organisations, when most of the villages will have a network of agricultural associations of a collectivist type. We are developing towards this, but we have not yet reached this goal and are not likely to reach it soon. Why? Because, among other things, large sums of money are needed for this which our State has not yet at its disposal, but which will no doubt be accumulated in the course of time. Marx said that not a single new social order in the history of mankind established itself firmly without being generously financed, without absorbing hundreds and hundreds of millions. I think that we are already entering upon the stage in the development of agriculture when the State is beginning to be able to give adequate financial support to the new social order. The fact that socialised industry has already acquired the leading rôle in our national economy and is carrying with it agriculture, is the surest guarantee that peasant economy will pursue the road of further collectivisation.
Question 3.—What were the main difficulties under military Communism when efforts were made to abolish money?
Answer.—There were many difficulties, internal
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