[lbo-talk] Expropriate the Expropriators vs. Expropriate the Expropriated

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>what if eminent domain is employed by a democratically-controlled 
>>state? for example, I'm sure that the Paris Commune used its power 
>>to take some private property.
>
>I would be uncomfortable if some anarchist group decided it could 
>demolish somebody's home in the community. I think our goal should 
>be to  *work things out* so that an equitable arrangement is found 
>between  parties.
>
>Chuck

There is nothing in common between the Paris Commune and Kelo v. City 
of New London.  It's one thing to expropriate the expropriators 
(e.g., socializing the means of production), and it's completely 
another thing to expropriate the expropriated (e.g., taking homes 
away from working-class homeowners and giving their lands to private 
developers).
-- 
Yoshie

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