Soviet poster : struggle against capitalism.

VI Lenin's views on the path of the transition from capitalism to socialism were based on his theory of multistructure. In the socio-economic reality of Russia, he singled out five orders: patriarchal (not participating in barter, limited by subsistence farming, outside the zone of market relations), small-commodity (represented by the majority of peasant and artisan farms), private capitalism (a private entrepreneur who employs hired labor in city, fist in the village),socialist (property of the proletarian state), state-capitalist (more or less large capitalist associations, under the control of the proletarian state, for example, concessions or leases). Ranking these styles from simple to complex, Lenin used labor productivity as the main criterion: the more complex and more perfect the way, the higher the productivity of labor.
Lenin urged the Bolsheviks to achieve that the socialist way of life was in fact the highest, that is, it ensured the greatest effectiveness. He linked the victory of socialism with the economic successes of the state and of co-operation, which would make it possible to ensure the highest labor productivity in state enterprises and cooperative associations. At this particular stage, Lenin called for extensive use of cooperation (various forms of co-operation of peasant farms) and state capitalism (to learn the commercial setting of the case).