 In the 1890s, David became a proponent of agricultural policies favouring small holdings, arguing for their viability in a series of articles in the "Sozialdemokrat" in August and September 1894.David argued against the traditional Marxist idea that small landholdings would increasingly be replaced by large estates, marking David as among the first "Revisionists" in his party.This journalism on the agrarian question would later expanded into his major book-length work, "Sozialismus und Landwirtschaft" (Socialism and Agriculture), in 1903.