The agrarian perspective of Mykola Levytsky’s cooperative views and activities
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In the latest scientific historical literature, various aspects of the multifaceted figure of the “father of artel” are objectively covered. At the same time, it is not about the agrarianist aspect of cooperative ideas and practices of M. Levytskyi. With this in mind, the authors found out the agrarianist context of Mykola Vasyliovych’s cooperative thoughts. The authors of the article aim to reveal the agrarian context of Mykola Levytsky cooperative thoughts.
Conclusions. Thus, comparing the intellectual and practical heritage of M. Levytsky with the theoretical heritage of
agrarianism allows us to reasonably conclude that there is an agrarian context in Mykola Levytsky cooperative reflections. Like the agrarians, he did not absolutize the role and importance of cooperation in the peasant world of the second half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries, but he gave it a prominent place. Adhering to a peasant-centered approach, the “artel father” identified cooperation in general and agricultural artels in particular as an alternative, a “third way” to the
models of development of the peasant world of that time: socialism (Marxism) and capitalism. He understood the peasantry and peasant farms as a social and economic basis, the progress of which (in a broad sense) would be ensured by cooperation as a voluntary self-organization of peasant individuals.
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