The Watchman On The Wall

The Watchman On The Wall
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Friday, October 27, 2023

History Repeats Itself, War On The Farmers/Kulaks, Oct. 27, 2023

 



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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