34 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 15 VI Lenin, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1956, pp 172-73. ' 6 Witold Kula, Theorie economique du systems feudal, Paris 1970, pp 25-26. 17 Sergio Reyes Osorio, "Aspectos de la problematica agraria nacional", Revista del Mexico Agrario 5 1S68, pp 71-95. is /W.,p92. 19 Lenin, The Development of Capitalism in Russia', op. cit.s P 4. 20 Rodolfo Stavenhagen, "Siete tests cquivocadas sobre America Latina", El Dia, June 1965. 21 Henri Lefebvre, "La teoria marxista-Ieninista de la renta de la tierra5', in Estudios sociologicos sohre la Reforma Agraria, UNAM, Mexico 1964. 22 Michel Gutelman, op. cit., pp 151. 28 VI Lenin, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, op. cit., p 186. 24 Calderon Martinez, "El mercado internacional de productos agricolas5', in Revista del Mexico Agrario, 1-2, January-April 1969. 25 Undoubtedly, this is the situation that Marx had in mind when he wrote: "In so far as millions of families live under economic conditions of existence that separate their mode of life, their interests, and their culture from those of other classes, and put them in hostile opposition to the latter, they form a class. In so far as there is merely a local interconnection among these small-holding peasants, and the identity of their interests begets no community, no national bond and no political organization, they do not form a class.51 K-arl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, International Publishers, New York 1963, p 124. 2 Q To give a definition of social class which is based upon the whole Mexican socio-economic system as such, i.e. in terms of "relation to the means of production5' would lead into a vicious circle. 27 <( The small peasants are consequently incapable of enforcing their class interests in their own name, whether through a parliament or through a convention. They cannot represent themselves, they must be represented. Their representative must at the same time appear as their master, as an authority over them, as an unlimited governmental power that protects them against the other classes and sends them rain and sunshine from above. The political influence of the small-holding peasants, therefore finds its final expression in the executive power subordinating society to itself". Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, op. cit., p 124. 28 This term was used by the reactionary Venezuelan historian, Villenila Lanz in 1919, in an effort to justify the dictatorship of Gomez. 28 Louis Althusser, Ideologiay aparatos ideologicos de Estado, Cuader nos de la Oveja Negra, Medellin, 1971. 80 Victor Flores Olea, "Poder, legitimidad y politica en Mexico55, Revista del Mexico Agrario, 1-2, January-April 1969. 81 While leasing is prohibited by article 55 of the constitution, exceptions are granted in article 76 which permits parcelling, leasing, and the use of salaried labour. This is allowed in those cases "where the ejadatorio cannot take on certain tasks profitably, even though he might dedicate his total efforts to them."