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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
But how?
You're not explaining how collectivizing in it's self caused a lack of resources, just what they did with the resources once they collected them.
Resources don't just magically disappear when you gather them together. If distributed properly at most it thins it out across the population. So it wouldn't be collectivization in it's self but what they did when they gathered all of their resources. Like selling the resources to build industry.
Or am I missing something?
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The irony is that the Russian peasants lived in small small agrarian communes that certain russian socialists took inspiration from in the late 19th/early 20th century. There were even attempts to indoctrinate them into marxist thought but the peasants were not particularly receptive to these attempts. The thought process was that they already existed in a sort of primitive form of communism so they would be the perfect recruits for such a movement. Problem being that while they might trust their neighbor enough to throw in together they don't trust a larger collective on a national scale. Such a concept is just utterly alien to someone who has always lives in a small tight knit community.