[lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why EminentDomainisaDistraction

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 28 08:29:27 PST 2006


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>The critique of the eminent domain by the likes you just mention amounts to
>the latter days Luddism - knee-jerk opposition to capitalist innovation on
>the grounds that it hurts "the people."

Tell me, how did building the Oak Street Connector and the Chapel Square Mall in New Haven contribute to the sum of human progress? Or making Times Square safe for its namesake newspaper? Or flattening a working class neighborhood and building a Costco? You're not engaging with the real world here, Woj.

Doug



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