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I would say this is unfair to communism. State ownership of all land is actually totally compatible with capitalism.


How is this unfair to communism? The elimination of private land ownership and housing choice are core methods of Leninism. The only others being forced culture cleansing and imperialism.

Explain how government forced divestment from single family private land ownership is capitalism. Other than communism, you seem to be thinking of a potential action inherent within fascism.


In several of the hyper-capitalist developmentalist East Asian states, all land is merely leased from the government:

Singapore - https://stackedhomes.com/editorial/land-ownership-in-singapo...

Hong Kong - https://www.landsd.gov.hk/en/resources/land-info-stat/land-t...

Some of this might have been because of the impression Georgism had on some of the Chinese revolutionaries, including Sun Yat-Sen himself:

https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=8&post=13799&unitname=E...

It's also because, by coincidence, U.S. State Department official Wolf Ladejinsky was influenced by Georgism. He was certainly no fan of communism, as he was a Ukrainian refugee from Bolshevik rule!

https://www.reddit.com/r/georgism/comments/10uzddk/the_georg...

Incidentally, while Taiwan does not have exclusive government ownership of land unlike Singapore, Hong Kong, or mainland China, it is a very successful example of land reform (which involved confiscation):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Taiwan

https://asianometry.substack.com/p/how-the-kmt-achieved-land...

https://cooperative-individualism.org/medaille-john_taiwan-a...




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