Soviet leader #JosefStalin on #ThisDayInHistory in 1929 ordered "liquidation of the kulaks as a class". "#Kulak", meaning fist, lumped together better-off peasants, who had to be removed to clear the way for #collectivization. People were killed for owning as little as a chicken.

Clans to Classes: How the Soviets Built Kazakhstan

https://tankie.tube/w/cgnCU6HC9R4C2ek2WS5j94

Clans to Classes: How the Soviets Built Kazakhstan

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Interesting--in this time of increasingly "lone" and solitary "privatization," so called--to recall the history of collectivization and its perennial importance in many financial instruments such as insurance.

1700s Scotland
https://www.sfe.org.uk/financial-services-in-scotland

#Insurance #Joint_Stock #Collectivization #Socialization #Finance #Privatization #Individualism #Private_Ownership #Single_Payer #NHS #Big_Pharma #Big_Bills

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) - Financial Services In Scotland

Financial services in Scotland dates back to the enlightenment period. Banking was growing rapidly in many European cities as traders and merchants looked to finance new ventures in the Americas and aristocrats and financiers looked to benefit from this burgeoning realm of trade.

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE)
Domain fronting is such an important #collectivization measure. It's an inaccurate & dangerous analogy to make but the way vpns collectivize client traffic has many similarities. Each endpoint each client can be stomped on but together we are not so easy to be taken out on whim of some power that be on the planet.