They therefore assumed from the start that communism would be opposed by the (predominant) agricultural sector… but they couldn’t admit that all farmers opposed them, just as they couldn’t admit that all urbanites opposed them. They had to implement a two step process: claim that an entire sector was uniformly wealthy, then blame that sector’s opposition to Marxism on their wealth. When in doubt, Marxists always blame opposition on their opponents’ wealth, whether they really have any or not. The communists ruled with an iron fist in the cities, and they controlled the military. The Bolsheviks therefore felt a need to cripple the vast majority of rural people across their enormous nation, and they used the old tactic of “class” demonization to do it, whether they really objectively qualified as a class or not. With a willing fifth column in the foreign press – Walter Duranty et. al. – the Stalin administration had no problem convincing the world that the only real remaining opponents of state socialism were those rich landowners, akin to the faceless ADMs, Cargills, and CHS Incs of today. It’s always easier to demonize a conglomerate; the masses are often happy to forget that conglomerates are made up of real individuals like you and me, and they join in, all too willingly.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 03:18:06 +0000
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