Anyone who says "X is what we need to do" over and over again will be part of a weird cult eventually and that's not a bad thing regardless of whether X is desirable.
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Also, Ladejinsky didn't focus on common ownership of land, or on land value taxation. He focused on expropriating land from landlords and giving it to tenant farmers. Which turned out to be an incredibly successful policy.
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An analogue in the U.S. would be the Homestead Act, which took expropriated land and handed it out in 40 acre chunks. Diff type of exprop obviously, but arguably similar results.
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Yes, it's politically easier when you have noncitizen populations to take all the land from!
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