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SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The comrade in it actually suggests that there is a time and place for such rhetoric

Perhaps now is the time.

The kulaks were not an ethnic minority persecuted by the bolsheviks as a scapegoat for society’s ills. They were the economic class directly responsible for many of those ills. They were the capitalists of the peasantry, enclosing land and claiming ownership over what should have been the common means of production, precisely the kind of group that communists the world over want to destroy in order to liberate the majority of people.

When it was written that the kulaks were to be “liquidated”, it did not mean that they were to be mass executed, it meant that their private property was to be moved into public ownership, ending the existence of the kulak class and making them into regular workers.

As is the case in every single campaign of economic or social justice, the privileged class fought back with everything they had. Kulaks contributed to the Soviet Famine of 1930-1933 by mass slaughtering their cattle and burning their fields. Kulaks hoarded grain, took the wealth that they had stolen from their neighbors and fled the country, plotted sabotage and insurrection against the workers’ movement. And for those crimes, many Kulaks were caught and executed.

So if the original commenter’s great grandparents were kulaks who “suffered at the hands of the soviet union,” they deserved it.

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14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Perhaps now is the time.

No, Time for condoning class war and murder is never and nowhere.

Go back to hexbear, you poor, uneducated, lying, bolshevik piece of shit.

But thank you for showing anyone who may have not had an experience with you before what type of people you are.

One can always count on that, you morona just can’t help yourself.

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- SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you don’t condone class war, then you are by necessity endorsing the current system. The current system which kills far, far more innocent people than any class war ever could, you lying, capitalist piece of shit.
  
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michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Your portrayal of them just being made into regular peasants seems to me viewing the whole affair with more than rose colored glasses.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization

All kulaks were assigned to one of three categories:[4]
Those to be shot or imprisoned as decided by the local secret political police. Those to be sent to Siberia, the North, the Urals, or Kazakhstan, after confiscation of their property. Those to be evicted from their houses and used in labour colonies within their own districts.

By most people’s reckoning in most of planet earth they stole the lawfully earned property of kulaks and either murdered them or otherwise destroyed their lives. Treating them worse than most developed nations treat burglars and thieves.

If someone shot your grandpa and your uncle, send half your people to Siberia to die out there, and sent the other half to prison locally of course you would flee with whatever you could carry and of course you would at that point be an enemy of the regime that destroyed your life.

So if the original commenter’s great grandparents were kulaks who “suffered at the hands of the soviet union,” they deserved it.

I don’t understand your justification for what is ultimately pretty horrific treatment foisted on people ultimately just participating lawfully in society up until that point.

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- SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  All kulaks were assigned to one of three categories:[4]
  
  Source four on this wikipedia article is Robert Conquest, an antihistorical Cold Warrior if there ever was one - and most of the rest of that article doesn’t even do the courtesy of citing a hack. It’s just section after section of “this section has no sources”, who wrote this garbage?
  
  I don’t understand your justification for what is ultimately pretty horrific treatment foisted on people ultimately just participating lawfully in society up until that point.
  
  Slaveowners were “just participating lawfully in society” too. Society sanctions a lot of incredibly damaging and amoral behavior, and when the repressed take power there is no reason why they should be expected to give their oppressors a pass just because it was legal at the time.
  
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  - michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    America didn’t go from legally sanctioning a behavior to murdering the people today who were behaving lawfully yesterday even if they were immoral fucks. If you don’t understand that then you don’t understand how normal societies run.
    
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    SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Tell me, how well did Reconstruction go? Were the former slaves elevated to the status of citizens equal to their former masters?
    
    No. The great post-Civil War failure of America was its failure to defend the gains made by the freed slave population, allowing the previous ruling class to swoop back in and reassert their power in a nearly-identical form to how it had been before. Sharecropping instead of slavery. This failure demonstrates quite succinctly why any social or economic justice movement cannot simply win the war - it must also continue to defend itself after the war, and that defense will by necessity take the form of repressing those members of the former ruling class who cannot accept the new status quo.
    
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FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
🤭

You guys don’t even hide it anymore. You’re openly advocating for brutal police regimes. The jokes write themselves. Convenient.

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- SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Equality has never in the history of our species been given freely by the ruling class to the workers. It has always been taken after violent struggle, and after the initial struggle is over the working class must be willing to defend their gains else they will lose them.
  
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  - FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I acknowledge that. But what “struggle” means is not an unimportant detail. And I disagree with the Stalinist approach viscerally, and it isn’t in accordance with leftist values by any stretch of the imagination.
    
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- alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You don’t get to call directing state power against the petite bourgeoisie a brutal police regime when your government is supporting the most brutal dictatorships in Africa, whose violence is directed at the working class.
  
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  - FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah I get to do that, because that’s what happened factually, sorry. No amount of whataboutism will change that. I don’t care about Western imperialists, fuck them too.
    
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    alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The vital context is wielding state power against internal threats. Which literally every state must do to continue to exist. It’s not whataboutism to point out that the state you currently live in is currently doing far worse, for far worse reasons in a context where your criticism can only be used for anticommunism.
    
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