If by planters you mean "Plantation owners", then it is planters. Plantation owners were at the top of the South's social hierarchy because they possessed large plots of land, yielding much income from the that land, and with the income came political power.
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The correct answer is B.
The main objective of socialist and communist economic systems was to achieve economic and income equality among all members of society.
In order to ensure so, goverment would intervene in every aspect of the the economy, everybody would have a job position and earn an equal salary and all the property will be public (therefore, private properties had to be nacionalized).
