[7]
Ibid., I. M. Rubinow: «Marx's Prophecies in the Light of Modern Statistics».
Review and assessment by Simkovich. In support of 
the theory 
of Marx 
(cf. theses at the end.
Pp. 155—6). Useful compilations of figures. Extremely 
insufficient and weak on agriculture.
Ibid., Alexander Bruckner, in a review 
of Masaryk's book, among other things: «The often quite petty party squabbling between the 
people of the «Iskra», between Maximalists and 
Minimalists, between Majorityites and 
Minorityites, 
etc., is too confused to 
be set forth in a few words» (p. 111).
Ibid., 
Eug. v. 
Philippovich: 
«M o n o p- 
o l i e s...
In the United States (1912)—  480 
owners of firms and their directors (18 banks) 
held 746 directorships in 434 
corporations with a capital of 25,325 millions 
of dollars (= 101,300 million marks). «It 
is probably a third of the American national wealth» (p. 159).
A. E. G. 
(General 
Electricity 
Company). Capital (1912) =  378 million 
marks. Its supervisory board has 32 members, 
who hold about 500 directorships in various 
enterprises.
[ 204 ]
[EXCERPTS AND REMARKS ON VARIOUS BOOKS]
180 people 
(families?)
25 bil- 
lion 
dollars
characteristic 
of a German 
bourgeois 
professor

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[EXCERPTS AND REMARKS ON VARIOUS BOOKS]
Ibid., I. M. Rubinow: «The Predictions of 
Marx in the Light of Modern Statistics» *.
Review and assessment by Simkovich. In support of 
Marx's theory 
(cf. theses at the end. Pp. 
155—6). Useful compilations of figures. Extremely 
insufficient and weak on agriculture.
Ibid., Alexander Brückner, in a review 
of Masaryk's book, among other things: «The often very petty party quarrel between the 
people of the «Iskra», between Maximalists 
and Minimalists, between Bolsheviks and Men-
sheviks, etc., is too confused to 
be rendered in a few words» 
(p. 111).________________________________________
Ibid., Eug. V. Philippovich: «M o n o p o - 
l i e s»...
In the United States 
(1912) — 480 
owners of firms and their directors (18 banks) 
held 746 directorships in 434 corporations 
with a total capital of 25,325 million 
dollars ( = 101,300 million marks). «This*, 
probably a third of the entire American national wealth» (p. 159).
A. 
E. G. (General Electricity Company). Capital (1912) = 378 million 
marks. Its supervisory board has 32 members, 
who hold about 500 directorships in various 
enterprises.
[ 205 ]
NB 
characteristic 
of a German 
bourgeois 
professor
180 people 
(families ?)
25 billion 
dollars
i

LENIN’S COLLECTION
praises S[ocial] D[emocrats]!
In the «Revue d'économie politique» (1915, No. 4, 
July—August), a review of Francesco Nitti: «Il 
capitale straniero in Italia» (156 pp.)* In all 
only 500 million (??), including
Belgian... 182 million 
French... 148 
English... 110 
Swiss... 46 
German... 28
Sum = 504 (mine)
Professor 
Dr. 
Robert Liefmann:  
«Does the War Bring Us Closer to Social-
ism?»
(No. 56 of «The German War», edited 
by 
E. Jäckh. Stutt[gart] — B[er]l[in] 
1915).
The author opposes the view (Jaffé and 
others) that the war brings [us] closer to socialism. Taxes, monopolies, bread cards — 
all this, he claims, has nothing in common with socialism (communism, he says = regulation of 
consumption, socialism = abolition of private property).
The most banal 
arguments 
against 
socialism in general. Of course, in favor of «reforms», 
for «mitigation of class contradictions», etc.
In general, 
he says, socialism [is] «dreams» 
(39), 
«fantasies» (37), «disastrous internationalism» (Soc.-Dem.) — (37)...
They reproach, he says, the German Soc.-Dem. for their at-
titude to the war, whereas, he says, «one has heard nothing» (37) (sic!) «of reproaches against» 
French and English socialists.
«The behavior of the German Social Democ-
racy... is commendable» (37)...
doubtful, 
isn't it too little? 
Compare with 
Paish 
and Harms

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workers 
of other countries 
do not think 
about social-
ism
Soc.-Dem. or «re-
formists»?
I am for revi-
sionism!!
...«The abolition of the present-day economic 
order is impossible internationally [and] would bring ruin nationally» (39)... «the workers of other countries, who are more grounded in reality, do not think of trying it in practice» (ibid.) (especially, he says, the 
workers of England, p. 38)...
...Let France, he says, make the «experiment» with socialism (39—40)...
«It is now very difficult to say to what extent the members of the German Social Democratic Party really still (!!) adhere to the 
ideal of socialism and to what 
extent the party is not merely a social re-
form party on a democratic basis»... 
(40)... My own statements, he says, «recommend only what the revisionist movement itself recommends within socialism» (40)...
«It would be very desirable for political collaboration after the war if a clear rejection by the Soc.-Dem. Party of this ideal could be achieved, or at least a declaration that it will for the time being refrain from advocating measures for its realization; in other words, if the revisionist movement within the German Social Democ-
racy, which aims at this, gained general recognition, so that no ambiguities remain about the position of Social Democracy after the war» (41)...

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23 
Conrad's Jahrbücher 1915. Issue 2. August. (Pp. 214—6).
A note by Diehl on the Danish law of 10. V. 1915. War-profits 
tax. Taxation of all excess incomes ( > 1912—5) at 10% of the 
surplus.
(not only war profit, but any excess income).
(the taxpayer is exempt from the tax if he proves that 
no part of the excess income was caused by the war).
NB [On the question of reforms under imperialism in general.]

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J. 
Goldstein. 
Workers 
and 
Employers in the Construction Industry 
of Germany. (Issue 5 of the Zurich Economic Studies). 
Zurich 1913.
(On the Prehistory of the Great Lockout).
Writings of the Association for Social Policy. Vol. 445. 
III. (See overleaf*)
Dr. Carl von Tyszka: «Wages and Cost of Living in Western 
Europe in the 19th Century» (Leipzig 1914)
A most detailed compilation of French 
and English 
data, abbreviated [for] Spanish, Belgian and Ger-
man. 
Result 
in 
favor of England. 
Summary 
table 
(abbreviated by me):
Index: 1900 = 100. Comparative movement of real 
wages.
Years: England Prussia 
South- 
ern G[er- 
many]
France 
Spain 
Bel- 
gium
53.8 
57.8 
(1875: 93.0) 
69.0 
51.0
68.9 
56.3 
90.5 
74.8 
(1890: 89.6) 
78.6
1900 100 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0
92.3 
82.9 
99.6 
106.0 
102.0 
90.9 
in 1905)
England, he says, thanks to free trade, suffered least from the high cost of living (p. 289 and passim).
England became an «industrial state» earlier (p. 101), and prices there adapted more, fully shifted to this base.
(94 — the increase in wages would be smaller if one takes «weighted» averages, i.e., takes into account the greater increase in worse-paid occupations. This is said about 26 workshops in the machine industry of Germany.)
NB: But this applies to the whole work.
N B. Vol. 145: Cost of Living in the Large Cities. (I—IV).
N B. A very thorough (in 145, IV. 1915) work on Hamburg, 
(1890— ), 
prices 
and 
budgets, 
consumption, 
housing, etc. = compared with London*

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Writings of the Association for Social Policy,
Vol. 140. II. The Milk Supply of Cities (1914).
There are fragmentary data on individual dairy 
farms (number of cows; production, etc.)
Development of the «works canteen» [sale] of milk and its public 
sale; displacement of beer (weak and rare).
Detailed data on prices.
Vol. 140. V. «The Public Milk Supply in Germany» (1914).
|| Hans Hess: «The Electron in the Various Branches of Physics». 
«Heaven and Earth», 1915, March (No. 3). (Year 27, 
Issue 3)*
|an interesting attempt to summarize the achievements of the electron theory|
[End of the notebook]

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1 The article by I. Rubinow is published in the "Archive of the History of Socialism and the Labor Movement" ("Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung") of Carl Grünberg, Vol. VI, 1916, pp. 129—156.
2 The article by A. Brückner "Russia and Europe" ("Russland und Europa") is devoted to the book by G. Masaryk, published in Jena in 1913: "Russia and Europe. Studies on Intellectual Currents in Russia" ("Russland und Europa. Studien über die geistigen Strömungen in Russland"). The article is published in Grünberg's "Archive", pp. 84—113.
3 Ibid., pp. 157—174, the article by E. Philippovich "Monopolies and Monopoly Policy" ("Monopole und Monopolpolitik").
4 Lenin has in mind the following works: the article by G. Paish, "Great Britain’s Capital investments in individual colonial and foreign countries" in the "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society". Vol. LXXIV, Part 2, January 1911. Pp. 167—187 (see "Lenin's Collection" XXVII, 443—447) and the book: B. Harms. "Problems of the World Economy". Jena 1912. (See "Lenin's Collection" XXVII, 203—219, and XXVIII, 391. On these books see Works, Vol. XIX, 121—122.)
5 The article by K. Diehl "The Danish War Profit Tax of 1915" ("Die danische Kriegsgewinnsteuer vom Jahre 1915") in the "Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik" ("Yearbooks for Political Economy and Statistics"), Vol. 105, Issue II. Jena 1915, pp. 214—216.
6 The book by K. Tyszka is included in Vol. 145, Part 3, "Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik". Leipzig 1914.
7 The article by R. E. May. "Kosten der Lebenshaltung und Entwicklung der Einkommensverhältnisse in Hamburg seit 1890" ("Cost of Living and Development of Income Conditions in Hamburg since 1890") is included in Vol. 145, Part 4, "Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik".