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And from where did the land-owning class obtain the land appropriated from them in 1917, pray tell?
by jlangenauer 15y ago
And from where did the land-owning class obtain the land appropriated from them in 1917, pray tell?
- theoj 15y agoIs there an argument here? Care to expand?
- sedachv 15y agoLand "ownership" is (like debt) an arbitrary system enforced by threat of violence. Hunter gatherers may have been territorial, but nowhere to the extent that agricultural societies are.
- lupatus 15y agoFrom the prior inhabitants through the ancient and acceptable right of force-of-arms... The Russian state first started with a small group of Viking princes in the area of Kiev and expanded to rule an area that used to be home to a wide variety of empires, states, kingdoms, and tribes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_russia#Kievan_Rus.27 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_russia#Kievan_Rus.27
- asciilifeform 15y agothrough the ancient and acceptable right of force-of-arms... And that's exactly how the Communists, in turn, came to own it.