[lbo-talk] eminent domain

[Jim Devine]

On 2/23/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> This is yet another example of how reactionary the Left has become - defending private property against public use.  This is where I really part  with the Left altogether - I am not just for the eminent domain, but against  private land ownership altogether.<

I'm all in favor of "public" (i.e., state) ownership of the land -- as
long as the state is controlled by the people. But it isn't. Federal,
state, and local governments are controlled instead by business,
sometimes in alliance with other groups such as fundamentalist
Christians.

Woj, I'm surprised that you're such a "public property" enthusiast. In
Eastern Europe until 1990 or so, wasn't such property controlled by a
monopoly Party?
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