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Pestel's economic thought

The Decembrists expected a reorganization to eliminate the worst features of autocracy, and abolish the serfdom. The desire to abolish serfdom had been the motive force in establishing the secret society, and all its members unanimously demanded its eradication, But they did not devote much attention to working out a practical program for eliminating it pastel tacked the question of serfdom more directly. He expected sweep aside the privilegers of the mobility, such primogenitur, tax exemption, freedom from military service. He suggested complete emancipation, with the preservation of the communal landownership to provide the peasants with a minimum of economic security and prevent the becoming a landless. Pestel went on to expand the social status of the citizen. All social ranks and other distinctions were to be abolished. All discriminations based on birth of property were considered to be remnants of the old feudal society and were not to be tolerated in the modern state. Pastel's solution of the agrarian problem was a logical sequence of his political creed. The confused currents of Pastel's thought appear very cleary in his reform plan. Pastel's plan for agrarian reforms placed him among the most advanced social reforms of his time. Namely, that since all men were born equal, all the land must be neld as common property. He loathed the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few and maintained that ererx person, as a citizen of the state, was entitled to his share of land. His program was directed against the large land-owners. Serfdom was to be resolutely stamped out and the mobility once and for all deprived of the hight to own serfs. The other point of view was that all land must be put into use as private property. But, Pestel's attitude to property involves him in a series of contradiction. In turn, he attacts and protects property. In fact, Pestel's whole social planning exhibits the unresolved conflict between his ascetic equalitarianism and the nineteenth-century principle of unhampered individualism. In the field of industry and commerce as well as in agriculture, Pastel held the view of the physiocrats. He was a firm believer in individual initiative and urged that no handicaps be imposed on those engaged in any of the fields mentioned. Pastel does not wholly ignore the potentialities of trade and industry. He envisages theirs expansion, for given the basis of economic security. Pastel was no socialist, nore communist, more materialist. He was in economic view, a physiocrat. But in the application of his liberal views to Russian conditions he went for ahead of his generation, aw is particularly demonstrated by his agrarian program In fact Pastel was called a Jacobin radical republican, But in economic view, he appeared as a more moderate reformer.