RE: Conservative or liberal - all paths lead to globalism

Posted on: February 24, 2017 at 15:27:12 CT

In just three years, the Marxists ruined what had been a functioning economy. A main reason for this was the confiscation of land, factories, banks and all other concerns from those who knew how to run them, for a blind transfer to utterly unqualified Party appointees. The economy was therefore taken over by a group of inexperienced, know-nothing socialist functionaries. Workers took over factories then failed to manufacture anything (reminiscent of Mao replacing “bourgeoisie surgeons” with the hospital janitorial staff, during the Cultural Revolution). Big farms went to peasants who understood nothing about large scale agriculture, and so these undertakings tanked as well. Money and other liquid assets were confiscated as fiat money was printed, causing spiraling inflation, debasing the currency. Lenin stated, “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Vladimir also claimed, “The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.” And, when the economy went off a cliff, the government used the army for labor, and then turned the labor force into a wing of the army.

But Lenin did eventually blink, and decided to bring back some capitalism to resurrect the moribund economy in 1921. This could not stop the communist-caused famine, which Lenin blamed on the land-owning Kulaks. He resisted helping the starving masses, wherein 5 million peasants died, writes Carson. In the beginning of Lenin’s reign, he mouthed anarchic slogans encouraging the peasants to appropriate land, and for workers to overtake factories and generally divide the spoils of revolution amongst one another. But Lenin only did this to gain support of the people, and was determined to reverse course later. This became apparent when he confiscated all land. By 1924, the year Lenin died, the Russian border states had been conquered and merged with Soviet Russia to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or U.S.S.R.