The average value of the goods which were confiscated from the kulaks during the policy of dekulakization (раскулачивание) at the beginning of the 1930s was only 170–400 rubles (US$90–210) per household.
“A peasant family of 8 has about 200$ between them. Clearly this is the bourgeoisie Marx was warning us about.”
This is something you still see today with the far left, r/newzealand has a few cookers like that. They rage against the middle class, while the billionaires screw us all.
So, the closest thing they had to a middle class. Business owners and successful farmers.
Yikes.
Not even that successful.
“A peasant family of 8 has about 200$ between them. Clearly this is the bourgeoisie Marx was warning us about.”
This is something you still see today with the far left, r/newzealand has a few cookers like that. They rage against the middle class, while the billionaires screw us all.
So incredibly stupid and short-sighted.