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Thread #159380   Message #3775847
Posted By: Teribus
29-Feb-16 - 07:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: ...this land is private property
Subject: RE: BS: ...this land is private property
"We don't need big landowners wielding power in unjust and undemocratic ways. What we need is millions of small landowners. They would use the land in the best way they knew how, because it was theirs, not someone else's."

Now how do big landowners wield power in undemocratic and unjust ways?

Millions of small landowners all doing their own thing as best as they know how would be a recipe for disaster even allowing for the not insignificant hurdle to be overcome in simply finding the millions of people with even the remotest interest in working those millions of smallholdings. But there again I could be wrong and the job centres of the UK are inundated with people battering down the doors all eager to become farmers, but I rather doubt it.

Somebody has got something so let's take it from them - "Socialism" is not known as the politics of envy for nothing.