by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
October
15, 2023
If you've read We're
All Dutch Farmers Now and We're
All Sri Lankan Farmers Now,
then you'll know all about the concerted war on farming that is taking place
right now, not just in Holland or Sri Lanka but in Ireland and Argentina and Canada and Spain and seemingly every other country around
the globe. And, if you have read those editorials, then you'll also
know all about the Malthusian Absolute Zero Sustainable Enslavement Great Food
Reset agenda that is behind this push to villify farmers and to stigmatize the
very act of farming itself.
But do you remember
when recently
ousted Dutch farm
minister Henk Staghouwer declared that "we must smash the farmers,
eliminate them as a class!"?
And do you recall
when Canadian prime minister Justin Castreau asserted, "To launch an offensive
against the farmers means that we must prepare for it and then strike at the
farmers, strike so hard as to prevent them from rising to their feet
again"?
And do you remember
what beleaguered Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was heard to remark
(shortly before fleeing
the country)? "In order
to oust the farmers as a class, the resistance of this class must be smashed in
open battle and it must be deprived of the productive sources of its existence
and development."
Of course you don't,
because they didn't say those things. Joseph Stalin did. And he wasn't talking about farmers. He was talking about kulaks.
That's right, if
this 2020s war on farming sounds familiar, that's because it's another example
of history repeating. A hundred years ago, Joseph Stalin was plotting how to
destroy the kulaks and confiscate their land and property
for the glory of the Soviet empire. Today, Gates and Schwab are plotting how to
destroy small farmers and take over their land and resources for the glory of
the 2030 Agenda.
Think
I'm joking? Let's take a look . . .
The deportation of a kulak family from Ukraine. Isn't communism cool?
WHO WERE THE KULAKS?
Excellent question. As it turns out, there are (as usual) two answers to that question: the glib answer you'll find in the history textbooks and the real one.
The glib answer—as
provided by the Wikipedias and Britannicas and the other online bastions of
truthiness to which people turn these days—is that the kulaks were prosperous,
land-owning peasants who were targeted by the Bolsheviks in the early Soviet
Union. As The Telegraph informs us in its explainer article on the subject: "Kulak in Russian
means 'fist,' as in 'you tight-fisted, miserly bastard,' and it was originally
simply a derogatory term for a dishonest person who grew wealthy trading grain."
Then the chroniclers
of officially sanctioned, textbook-worthy history will tell us about the "dekulakization" campaign that arose in the 1920s,
branding these "wealthy" peasants as a class enemy of the Soviet
revolution.
This dekulakization
campaign began (by Stalin's own admission) as a policy of "restricting the kulaks'
exploiting tendencies"—i.e., imposing punishing taxation, burdensome fines
and increasing restrictions on the practice of renting land or hiring
labourers. But (again, by Stalin's own admission) as soon as the Soviet government calculated
that it had the economic and political power to kick the kulaks off their land
and collectivize their farms, the policy of "restricting the kulaks"
became something altogether darker:
We could not permit
dekulakization as long as we were pursuing the policy of restricting the
exploiting tendencies of the kulaks, as long as we were unable to go over to a
determined offensive against the kulaks, as long as we were unable to replace
the kulak output by the output of the collective farms and state farms. At that
time the policy of not permitting dekulakization was necessary and correct. But
now? Now things are different. Now we are able to carry on a determined
offensive against the kulaks, break their resistance, eliminate them as a class
and replace their output by the output of the collective farms and state farms.
Now, dekulakization is being carried out by the masses of poor and middle
peasants themselves, who are putting complete collectivization into practice.
Now, dekulakization in the areas of complete collectivization is no longer just
an administrative measure. Now, it is an integral part of the formation and
development of the collective farms. Consequently it is now ridiculous and
foolish to discourse at length on dekulakization. When the head is off, one
does not mourn for the hair.
In a word, the policy of "restricting" the kulaks quickly became that of eliminating the kulaks. And, with that genocidal policy in place, the Soviets got to work confiscating land, uprooting families, tearing apart communities, dispossessing millions, redistributing vast swaths of farmland, and, eventually, starving millions of peasants in the name of their glorious communist revolution.
"Let Us Destroy the Kulaks as a Class!" Soviet anti-Kulak propaganda ca. 1930
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