You are absolutely correct, BUT THEY don’t like self-sufficient individuals, small scale ANYTHING (too hard to control at-an-arms length) and even less—local people of influence, ie “Kulaks.”
Easy to find what a basic Kulak is by wiki definition, but study of Soviet era application is MUCH broader. If you want to see what’s coming our way, study Soviet history and WHO was driving it.
It’s them, it’s ALWAYS them.
Funny account of early “communist” ag commissar running a collectivized farm. A passerby noticed that a field was being disced with one disc harrow on top of the harrow actually functioning. He stopped the driver and inquired about the odd arrangement, the reply, “I was told to double disk the field.” 😂
I know that this is the outcome desired by powerful people, but I was thinking more about the mindset of the farmers themselves. I wonder how many can even make the connection that 40 years ago they had row crops, a little orchard, a couple steers and a little flock of ewes, some ducks by the pond and a couple pigs or dozen chickens. Now they just have row crops and a weekly grocery bill buying stuff trucked in from another state that they used to make themselves or have made locally. I work in a lot of people's houses in a rural area and I often see the old aerial photos of farmsteads, there used to be so many little things going on besides corn, beans and maybe wheat. I wonder how many even remember what they gave up.
It’s the communist model, men as machines—highly specialized. Take an old school toolmaker, chain him to a CNC widget mill and bump his ego by calling him a machinist.
