[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?

[Charles Brown]

The Michigan Supreme Court recently went the other way on this. I think they
were interpreting the Michigan Constitution's eminent domain provision. If
so, in Michigan , local governments would still violate the _Michigan_
constitutional public purpose requirement of eminent domain , if they were
to take for another private interest. This decision reversed an earlier
Michigan Supreme Court case which went the same way as the one the that just
came from the U.S. Supreme Court. The earlier case involved General Motors,
Detroit and socalled Poletown, a largely Polish neighborhood that was
destroyed by the taking for GM and for jobs. 

In both the recent Michigan case and the U.S. Sup case reported yesterday ,
the rightwingers and Federalist Society members are the ones "protecting"
the personal private property rights of the largely working class potential
losers.

What gives ? negation of negation, the worse the better ? Is there some type
of structural division in the ruling class we might exploit ?

Charles