Xenakis --
The white farmers in isolated parts of South Africa were always in a precarious position, and they needed Apartheid and its permissions (go ahead and eliminate anyone who seems a threat, because we will excuse anything in our legal system) for self-defense. Maybe they were the only ones who could bring South African agriculture into the modern world in the only middle-latitude country south of the Sahara in Africa. South Africa may be in the middle latitudes, but most of it is in the desert or semi-desert belts even if the climate is otherwise mild.
Farming is not a growth industry, and even where it is prosperous, it is an activity becoming less labor-intensive. Farm machinery replaces labor, and in South Africa that means that ill-paid farm laborers become (in Marxist terms) 'the reserve army of the unemployed'. For an analogy, consider what happened when mechanization came to the cotton fields of the American South. Machines could chop and pick cotton, so "King Cotton" no longer needed so many field hands. Jim Crow practice and Apartheid were very different, to be sure, but they were both raw deals. Also, South African farmers seem to have not planted cotton.
In America, farmers often have large families practically as a tradition, but many of the kids leave farming. After attending college the kids are more likely to go into some other field well prepared for the sophisticated, urban and suburban world. Farmers are not hicks, and their kids may have learned some good work habits. I know. I live in a farming area.
I'm guessing that even without the fear that white farmers have in South Africa of some disgruntled farm-hands becoming new manifestations of Perry Smith and Richard "Dick" Hickock (The reference is to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which has nothing to do with 'socialism' of any kind), there would be some consolidation of small farms into bigger corporate farms, as in America, with the bigger farmers buying out the smaller ones. Scions of small farmers take the money and invest in businesses at best, and McMansions at worst.
Criminals like Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are never socialists; they seek to steal income and wealth from others, and not to share it.
By the way -- it is not the mixed socialist-capitalist order of social democracy that is so deadly; it is Marxism-Leninism and its variants that do the mass killing that you ascribe to socialism.
The white farmers in isolated parts of South Africa were always in a precarious position, and they needed Apartheid and its permissions (go ahead and eliminate anyone who seems a threat, because we will excuse anything in our legal system) for self-defense. Maybe they were the only ones who could bring South African agriculture into the modern world in the only middle-latitude country south of the Sahara in Africa. South Africa may be in the middle latitudes, but most of it is in the desert or semi-desert belts even if the climate is otherwise mild.
Farming is not a growth industry, and even where it is prosperous, it is an activity becoming less labor-intensive. Farm machinery replaces labor, and in South Africa that means that ill-paid farm laborers become (in Marxist terms) 'the reserve army of the unemployed'. For an analogy, consider what happened when mechanization came to the cotton fields of the American South. Machines could chop and pick cotton, so "King Cotton" no longer needed so many field hands. Jim Crow practice and Apartheid were very different, to be sure, but they were both raw deals. Also, South African farmers seem to have not planted cotton.
In America, farmers often have large families practically as a tradition, but many of the kids leave farming. After attending college the kids are more likely to go into some other field well prepared for the sophisticated, urban and suburban world. Farmers are not hicks, and their kids may have learned some good work habits. I know. I live in a farming area.
I'm guessing that even without the fear that white farmers have in South Africa of some disgruntled farm-hands becoming new manifestations of Perry Smith and Richard "Dick" Hickock (The reference is to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which has nothing to do with 'socialism' of any kind), there would be some consolidation of small farms into bigger corporate farms, as in America, with the bigger farmers buying out the smaller ones. Scions of small farmers take the money and invest in businesses at best, and McMansions at worst.
Criminals like Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are never socialists; they seek to steal income and wealth from others, and not to share it.
By the way -- it is not the mixed socialist-capitalist order of social democracy that is so deadly; it is Marxism-Leninism and its variants that do the mass killing that you ascribe to socialism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
