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To: RayChuang88
Factory/automated farming is an idea from the Communist Manifesto.
  1. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

  2. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

  3. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
So in the ten planks, there is forced relocation, enslavement by the state, destruction of family farming (which fed the USA during WWII), mechanizing of farming to the point of it being an industry rather than agriculture, centralizing of farming (subsidized) et al, all of which has happened here.
39 posted on 05/13/2015 9:00:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Regardless of what Karl Marx said, once the steam engine got smaller and smaller so they could power tractors, mechanized farming was coming anyway because it allowed a huge leap forward in agricultural output on a per acre/hectare basis. What happened in the Ukraine between 1928 and 1934 with its massive famine was more a political decision than a technological decision.


40 posted on 05/13/2015 9:47:59 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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