The Communist Manifesto had, as its object, the proclamation of the inevitable impending dissolution of modern bourgeois property. But in Russia we find, face-to-face with the rapidly flowering capitalist swindle and bourgeois property, just beginning to develop, more than half the land owned in common by the peasants.
Lakini katika Urusi tunakuta, ikikabiliana uso kwa uso na maendeleo makubwa ya kikepitalist yanayokuwa mbio mbio na miliki ya kibepari ya ardhi ambayo ndiyo kwanza ianzishwe, zaidi kuliko nusu ya ardhi yote inamilikiwa na wakulima kwa mujibu wa utaratibu wa obshchina.