History Forum / General / General Topics / October 2007

One big reason is probably that the Maoist form of communism replaces
Marx and Lenin's ideas based on industrial labor with a system based on
agricultural labor.

Industrial labor is already grouped into crews and shifts and plants
that fit right into the communist organ quite neatly. For the workers
it's basically just another boss.

Changing a patchwork of family farms into organized industrial
agriculture is another thing entirely, likely to breed widespread
resentment and revolt. People who have spent their entire adult lives
running their own  business tend to look a little funny at some
23-year-old right out of the university with a shiny red star on his cap
trying to tell them what to do.

Sometimes you have to kill a few million before they catch on.

Note also that most of Stalin's really horrific killing sprees involved
farmers and not industrial labor.

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