[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 29 07:14:33 PDT 2005


joanna wrote:


>Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>>But THIS DECISION was about the rights of property versus
>>democratic control. Period.
>>
>>And democracy won. Hurray.
>
>So, to repeat my earlier query, if abunch of citizens decide that a
>car dealership would be more productive than Bill Gates' mansion,
>then we get to raze the mansion? You think this decision will
>support that move?

It occured to me last night that we're talking past each other (we're suffering from discursive incommensurability!). Lawyers like Nathan & Justin are talking about points of law, and the rest of us are talking about how eminent domain typically works in practice. Seems to me that the lawyers are operating in a depoliticized realm of language, precedent, and abstract possibilities, but I'm not a lawyer.

Doug



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