Self-Exploitation On and Exploitation in a Labor Peasant Economy in Light of Chayanov's Theory of Labor-Consumer Balance

The article reveals the content of the concept of self-exploitation and identifies its features in the labor peasant economy. Based on Chayanov's theory of labor-consumer balance and the specific goal of the labor peasant economy, the author reveals themechanism and causes of self-exploitation. As a methodological basis for the study, the article uses the most important principles of classical and neoclassical economic theories. The article shows the trends in the dynamics of the self-exploitation in a peasant farm. The paper studies the role of self-exploitation as a factor in expanding production to meet the unsatisfied needs of a peasant family. The author identifies and analyzes the factors influencing the degree of self-exploitation (intensity) of labor in a peasant farm. The article proves that self-exploitation in labor peasant farms in the context of their participation in market relations is intensified, intertwined and supplemented by external exploitation. The types and features of external exploitation of peasant farms are revealed. The issue reveals the features of exploitation and self-exploitation in the Russian market economy in households represented mainly by personal farms. The article determines the reasons for the "vitality, survival" of labor peasant farms, personal subsidiary farms in catastrophic crisis situations. The author shows that such “survivability” is based on a high degree of self-exploitation of peasants.