The NAZIs did the same to small business immediately after taking power.
Karl Marx hated the middle class. His desire was to replace the current aristocracy with a new one that he would be part of.
Vampire Economy - Gunter Reimann @ mises.com
Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national economic planning, and attacks on private property, and what consequences they had for human rights and economic development