66 SOCIAL SCIENTIST resolution adopted in March 1973, titled "Central Committee Resolution on Certain Agrarian Issues." l 7 Utsa Patnaik, Communication in Social Scientist, No 13, p 65. 18 See Lenin, "The Development of Capitalism in Russia," Collected Works, Vol 3; "To the Rural Poor," Vol 6; Mao Tse-tung, "Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society," Selected Works, Vol 1, Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1967; "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan," Vol 1; and "How to Differentiate the Glasses in the Rural Areas," Vol 1. % l® (Cited by Utsa Patnaik, Social Scientist, No 13, p 63. 2° "Mode of Production in Indian Agriculture," Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Agriculture, December 30, 1972. 21 Marx, "Appendices: Introduction," A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyy pp 188-217, Progress Publishers, Moscow 1970. 2 a Marx, "Preface" Ibid., p 21. 2s See Marx, "Appendices: Introduction," Ibid., p 192. 2 A Marx, Ibid., cited by Paresh Chattopadhyay, Economic and Political Weekly, December 30, 1972,pA-185. 2 5 See Utsa Patnaik, Social Scientist,^ 13, p 64. 26 Ibid.,? 55. 27 See Utsa Patnaik, Social Scientist No 2, September 1972, pp 17-22. In her communication in Social Scientist^ No 13, she continues to refer to the "employer-labour55 relationship—which is neither feudal nor capitalist—and to deny the Marxist-Leninist classification of an agrarian proletariat in colonial India. 2 8 Lenin, "The Development of Capitalism in Russia," Collected Works, Vol 3, p 79. 2 9 See "Tasks on the Kisan Front," Central Committee Resolution of the CPI (M),. paras 9 & 28. 30 "Circulation is merely a particular phase of exchange or of exchange regarded in its totality... The conclusion... is not that production, distribution, exchange and consumption are identical, but that they are links of a single whole, different aspects of one unit. Production is the decisive phase, both with regard to the contradictory aspects of production and with regard to the other phases...a distinct mode of production thus determines the specific mode of consumption, distribution, exchange and the specific relations of these different phases to-one an other,,.There is an interaction between the various aspects. ^ (Marx, "Appendices: Introduction," A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy^ pp 204-205). 3 I Lenin, "Capitalism in Agriculture," Collected Works.Vol 4, p 111. s 3 Lenin, "The Development of Capitalism in Russia," Collected Works,\o\ 3, p 178. 83 Ibid., p 169. s A Lenin, "New Data on the Laws Governing the Development of Capitalism in Agriculture," Collected Works, Vol 22, pp 46 & 101. 3 5 Ibid., p 59. 3 6 The key question, as formulated by Marx, is whether these two essential conditions are met: For the conversion of his money into capital, therefore, the owner of money must meet in the market with the free labourer, free in the double sense, that as a free man he can dispose of his labour-power as his own commodity, and that on the other hand he has no other commodity for sale, is short of everything