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Old 12-11-2006, 08:23 PM
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Default Re: Forum Political Identity Poll

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The landlord is analagous to the capitalist. It's "pay me rent or freeze to death on the street" just like "let me take part of what you produce or you'll starve to death with no job."

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While I agree in part with your sentiment, I think the mutualist view of land ownership places an unnecessary and unethical restriction on voluntary transactions. Unnecessary, because the phenomenon where a small % of people own the vast majority of land is a product of Statism (of both capitalist and socialist varieties) and could not happen in a free society.
Unethical, because it is a limitation on what consenting individuals with what is theirs.

But, as I stated before, I do think that different communities might handle the land issue differently, and that there is no real need to come to a complete consensus on the issue.
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