Thesis: As Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate the Kulaks, he portrayed them as the enemy of the government's efforts to eliminate harmful capitalist practices and claimed his alternative system of collectivization would be able to mitigate the harmful effects of removing the Kulaks.
x- Kulaks refused to surrender private plots and personal earnings
x- Stalin foments a class struggle between the Kulaks and less successful peasants by arguing these collectivization goals are an effort to fight against capital
x- Stalin argues that the Kulaks must be eliminated in order to ensure the success of the fight against capitalist elements of the countryside and bring about prosperity
x- Stalin points out such an attack on the Kulaks ears ago would have been foolish adventurism, but the establishment of collective farms changes this decision calculus.
x- Stalin argues the present day material base makes them immune from the harms of striking against the Kulaks
x-Must eliminate the Kulaks as a class- only way to substitute their output for one of collective farms. Kulaks do not belong on the collective farms, they are its sworn enemies
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