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Communism is wealth seizure.But communism requires surveillance.Here’s how to see that.In 1918, in the midst of the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin gave an order to murder 100 nearby “kulaks.” By that he meant the kind of peasant who might have two cows.An under-appreciated aspect of Lenin’s order is that it required a list. That is: the communists couldn’t murder the kulaks without actually having a list of kulak names and locations.Moreover, the poor kulaks were tied to those locations, like farmers tend to b ...