Agricultural commune


An agricultural commune is a commune based on agricultural labor.

Karl Marx

In his 1881 letter to Vera Zasulich, Karl Marx wrote that historically the "agricultural commune" is the most recent type of archaic forms of societies. Marx wrote that the following features distinguish the agricultural commune from more archaic forms of commune.
The "agricultural commune" was a form of agricultural cooperation in early Soviet Union. In agricultural communes land and tools were communal property and the product was distributed per capita. On the break of 1920-1930s they were transformed in kolkhozes.