In this work, the author set out to show the course and main lines of the struggle between labor and capital on the eve of the October Revolution (March - October 1917) in the field of economics. For although the struggle between labor and capital permeates all sides of public life, it itself is directly conducted in the field of economic relations. The political struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie for power, being the core of the acute class struggle in the country, was rooted in these relations and was determined by them. Let us recall that, according to the Marxist-Leninist understanding of history, political events are reduced to the action of the causes of ultimately economic CHOd, one of the main tasks of the work is to clarify the objective role of the struggle between labor and capital in preparing the subjective factor of the socialist revolution. And she was huge.