{"id":3995,"date":"2013-11-16T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2013-11-16T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T21:24:10","slug":"whats-the-spanish-word-for-kulak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/11\/16\/whats-the-spanish-word-for-kulak\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Spanish Word for “Kulak”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Venezuelan dictator Nicola Maduro has had 100 “bourgeois” arrested<\/a> for being “barbaric\u2026 capitalist parasites!”<\/p>\n

The actions of Maduro have gone far beyond that, though:<\/p>\n

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“Since the weekend, soldiers and inspectors have gone into 1,400 shops, taken over operations at an electronics firm and a battery-making company<\/p>\n

“\u2026<\/p>\n

“Only a few of the hundreds of shops targeted with surprise inspections had been found to be offering ‘fair prices'”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     Unsurprisingly, these actions have taken place a mere three weeks before elections<\/em>.\u00a0 We can dispense with the fiction that fair elections are even possible in Venezuela now.<\/p>\n

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     De-Kulakization has already begun.\u00a0 This will not end well.<\/p>\n

     Hat Tip<\/strong>: Weasel Zippers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

     P.S. Yes, the term “Kulak” is associated with peasants who were not absolutely poor (unless they were disliked by Stalin), but it has also in the broader<\/a> sense been used for “prosperous, ruthless, and stingy merchant[s].”\u00a0 Regardless, the term “Kulak” is properly invocative.<\/p>\n

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     Venezuelan dictator Nicola Maduro has had 100 “bourgeois” arrested for being “barbaric\u2026 capitalist parasites!” The actions of Maduro have gone far beyond that, though: “Since the weekend, soldiers and inspectors have gone into 1,400 shops, taken over operations at an … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,22,24,48],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-fail","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}