the fight againt the revisionists on these questions resulted in as fruitful a revival of the theoretical thought in international socialism as did engels's controversy with duhring twenty years earlier. the arguments of the revisionists were analysed with the help of facts and figures. it was proved that the revisionists were systematically painting a rose-coloured picture of modern small-scale production. the technical and commercial superiority of large-scale production over small-scale production not only in industry, but also in agriculture is proved by irrefutable facts. but commodity production is far less developed in agriculture and modern statisticians and economist are as a rule not very skilful in picking out the special branches(sometimes even the operations) in agriculture which indicate that agriculture is being progressively drawn into the process of exchange in world economy