Blaming the Kulaks | Charles Haywood | 5/22/23
The Auron MacIntyre Show
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The Modleability of Power in Centralizing Regimes
The reason the kulaks are always a problem for any centralizing regime is the high and low versus middle distinction, right? From Bertrand de Juvenile, if you want to centralize power, you need to get rid of autonomy. You can't have these people in the middle who have created social networks that allow them to exist outside the power of the state. The continued infrastructure of the previous regime cannot be allowed to move into the new one If the current regime is going to maximize its control. And here in America, we have a similar thing, kind of these remnants of bourgeoisie capitalism, particularly those that might have been connected to any kind of remnants of European settlers in the United
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