SOURCES FOR QUOTES APPEARING IN
"AGAINST SMALL FARMING TOO" GIF
Marx and Engels: "Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries." The Communist Manifesto (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1910), 42.
Bebel: "The highest possible concentration [of small farms into large ones] affords mighty advantages." August Bebel, Woman Under Socialism, trans. Daniel De Leon (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), 306.
Lenin: "The solution lies only in socialised farming …. The way to escape the disadvantages of small-scale farming lies in communes, cartels or peasant associations. That is the way to improve agriculture, economise forces and combat the kulaks, parasites and exploiters." "Speech At A Meeting Of Delegates From The Poor Peasants' Committees Of Central Gubernias," November 8, 1918, Lenin's Collected Works, Vol. 28 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974) 95-97.
This speech is one of the dozens, if not hundreds, in which Lenin attacks those socialism deems "parasites"—in this case, better-off small farmers termed "kulaks" who were considered an obstacle to the collectivization of agriculture. The USSR would soon institute a "dekulakization" campaign that would cost millions their lives. Lenin is but one of hundreds of socialist thinkers to attack alleged parasites again and again. And, as illustrated in the GIF below, democratic socialists attack parasites in a fashion identical to socialist dictators like Lenin.
To learn more about socialism's fixation with alleged "parasites" and how this is one of the many automatic byproducts of socialism's foundation on the duty of "from each according to their ability," see our paper "The Socialist Obsession."
Bukharin: "All small and futile enterprises must die out. All work must be concentrated in the largest possible, factories, works, farms." Quoted in socialist Morris Hillquit's From Marx to Lenin (New York: The Hanford Press, 1921), 39.
Cannon: "The whole of agricultural production conducted on the basis of factory farms." America's Road to Socialism (New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1953), 72.