It's not bizarre, when you consider that the why of the communist revolution was driven by a popular desire for land reform. (Also Bread and Peace, neither of w

It's not bizarre, when you consider that the why of the communist revolution was driven by a popular desire for land reform. (Also Bread and Peace, neither of which could be offered by the provisional government of the February revolution. [1]) And nothing about our current land use and tax policy results in good land use. It can, at best, result in good land use for some of the people owning it, but that doesn't optimize for what is good for anyone else. If you let the situation rot too much, the same factors that drove that revolution can result in similar political instability. I don't believe we are close to that point, though. [1] Of course, ironically, a coup backed by a strong public desire for peace resulted in a civil war which was in every respect worse than World War I for every participant.