Vladimir Lenin — "Comrades! The insurrection of the five kulak districts must be mercilessly suppr…"
Comrades! The insurrection of the five kulak districts must be mercilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution demand it, for 'the last decisive battle' with the kulaks is now underway everywhere. An example must be made. 1. Hang (absolutely hang, so that the people can see) no fewer than 100 known kulaks, fatcats, and bloodsuckers. 2. Publish their names. 3. Seize all their grain. 4. Designate hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram.
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Russian revolutionary who led the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and founded the Soviet state; What Is to Be Done? (1902) shaped 20th-century revolutionary practice.
Closely associated with
Leon Trotsky (his Red Army organizer and 1917 partner) and Karl Marx (the source Lenin claimed (and adapted)).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher — Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) systematically attacked Marx-and-Lenin 'historical inevitability' as the philosophical structure that produces totalitarianism — Lenin's vanguard-party doctrine is Popper's primary 20th-century target.
Details
An explicit and brutal order for the mass execution of kulaks (wealthy peasants).
