The Peasantry and Social Democracy: Lviv, Nakladom chasopysu “Zemlia i volia”, 1910, 112 p.

This Volodymyr Levynskyiʼs brochure is devoted to the agrarian question in socialist politics. The author analyzes the transformation of the peasantry under the influence of capitalist development, arguing that the growth of market relations and the concentration of land ownership lead to a significant differentiation of the peasantry into a rural bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat. He provides statistical data illustrating the condition of the Galician peasantry: the fragmentation of small holdings, the persistence of latifundia, and the increasing proletarianization of small and landless peasants. The author cites Marxist classics, in particular Karl Kautskyi’s work “The Agrarian Question”. The central thesis of the work is that the economic interests of poor peasants coincide with those of the urban working class, as both groups represent the interests of labor against capital.

Contents

Introduction

The Peasantry and the Proletariat

Agrarian Relations and the Agrarian Proletariat in Galicia

Agrarian Postulates and the Agrarian Policy of the Ukrainian Radical Party

The Peasantry, the Agrarian Question, and International Social Democracy

The Agrarian Policy of Social Democracy

Private or Collective Ownership

Agrarian Programs of Socialist Parties