Posted on 10/25/2015 3:39:33 PM PDT by amnestynone
From the inception of the Soviet Union, transformation was built, quite consciously, on eliminating those forces that could impede radical change. In many ways, the true enemy was not the large foreign capitalists (some of whom were welcomed from abroad to aid modernization) but the small firm, the independent property owner.
“Small scale commercial production is, every moment of every day, giving birth spontaneously to capitalism and the bourgeoisie … Wherever there is business and freedom of trade, capitalism appears,” noted the state’s founder, Vladimir Lenin. He understood that while larger firms could be manipulated to serve the state, “capitalism begins in the village marketplace.”
Later on, this drive to eliminate grassroots capitalists—notably the “rich peasants” or kulaks—took on a particularly deadly form. In 1929 Stalin decided on the “liquidation of the kulaks as a class.” Millions of small, rural entrepreneurs were imprisoned, murdered, or starved to death, until by the end of the ’30s independent business in the Soviet Union was largely eliminated, giving the state free rein.
Regulation, red tape; regulation; red tape.
The government insists it’s for The People; however, we all know it’s to protect Big Business from competition, as well as to employ their permanent staffs of highly-paid lawyers.
When all the stores in our state could stay open on Sunday instead of just the mom and pops with 600 sqFT or less, it killed the little tradesmen.
Also truckers were not allowed to drive in the state on Sunday until sundown back then. Definitely made for a quieter time.
The left clearly knows this.
Everything they despise and revile, they always want more laws and regulation and restrictions on. Everything they love, they fight against more regulation and laws.
Should I place a copy of this article in the door of my neighbor with the “bernie” sign in his front yard?
Crony capitalists partner with their sock puppet government guys and create a ton of new regulations to bury any future competition. As every economic sector continues to consolidate down to 2 or 3 mega-corps, this situation grows worse and worse for the poor small business guy. Monopoly through regulatory capture goes hand-in-hand with our new gilded age of winner-take-all companies hand-picked and protected by the army of bureaucrats in the government.
And that is why businesses in every community around the nation need to quit their local chamber of communists! These groups have an advocacy arm and I bet you have no idea what they are advocating for! Passing on their power to the national CoC! Cut them off at the knees! Chamber of Commerce = GOPe establishment!
This is progressivism at work.
A very good article. Thanks for posting. Capitalism at its finest (current example): American craft beer.
HOORAY Joel Kotkin
Low or no interest rates on savings - we all suffer.
Trump should start talking about reviving small businesses.
bkmk
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