ABSTRACT
An important issue concerned the question of how to progress towards a perspective with a universal reach, under conditions of permanent hostility and violence characterising the intrinsically imperialist processes of capitalist globalisation. Theorists and ideologists of capitalism all imagined that this same solution would result from the transfer and application of organisational models derived from large-scale industry to agriculture. Soviet socialism inherited the dominant conception of the 19th century, transmitted by Kautsky and inspired by the model of Soviet collectivisation. Modern family agriculture, dominant in Western Europe and in the United States of America (USA), has clearly shown its superiority when compared to other forms of agricultural production. In the factory, the number of workers enables an advanced division of labour, which is at the origin of the leap in productivity. The efficiency of the agricultural family business is due to its modern equipment.
