House of Paine

gobbling the commons han style

200 million peasant households 
can't be wrong 
part 6 

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recent la times

on the prc "illegal"
              land grab frenzy

  flash

it ain't all kulacks 
          gettin fucked here 


 and despite fine sounds
out of the party CC
 
 this maoist  ponders

is there really 
  a material  contradiction 
  among the party  bureaucrats ????

or is this  center command 
to rectify land seizure 

              but  a paper kite 


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first the action on the ground so far....



"Land seizures are accelerating all over  China "

"  already by official count
 more than 40 million Chinese farm
 households
have had their land partly  
         or wholly dispossessed
              in the past 8 years "


----------- center vs local bureaucrat 
                       contradiction  ??? ------------


---------- the center -----------------
 
"  National Party leaders
 approved a new  five-year economic plan
 to balance growth by protecting 
the land rights  of farmers "


---------- but locally ---------------

"township  governments 
  need to seize  land 
quickly 
to meet economic goals
 create jobs
   and ....
      fund their operations"

----------- how about 
        privatization??
      ie
         vesting 
individual  farme households
   in their  plots
  now owned in common -------------------


------------but ---------

" farmers  after selling 
        their plots
 will flood into cities "

--implication here
is not clear 

 offered a  fair price 
        too many millions 
         would sell out ???
take the cash and head for the city 
ie 
they are now only held on the land
because
  their plot rights
qwhich are now subject to redistribution
all though 
 leasible
 would be worth more
if  vested 
and  thus saleable ...

hmmmnn
 a lot to ponder here  ...-----------

but 
besides that 
       possible mare's nest 
there's this 

"Privatizing hardly
solves the problem 
  of  official corruption"

---------no 
butit might make it
       less valuable though ----------

 

since 

" land conflicts involve
 government officials 
trading power for money"

privitization
would perhaps
reduce official
power
and thus official payment sizes --------------


------------ so since there's many many 
                fortunes to be made  by ...-----------

" collusion between businessmen 
                       and officials "

---------who really 
wants to solve the problem ???--------

--------- what about 
     the  party higher ups ????
                   well...-----------

" regional cadre  still protect 
their  local  officials interests" 

------------ why???
        why else
      money gathered 
           at the local level
        spontaneously  flows up
                         right ???? ------

  ----------sure enough  -----------

" 'fair compensation'
  methods already
         exist  on 
most province   proceedure 
                       books...."


 " but  local officials 
         as yet
don't need to  follow these rules"


---------  now that
  macro klass turbulence 
is growing apacenation wide
  
  will the center
      at last 
 find that threata threat
perhaps
 to their whole gig
 outweighing
the fine  cash flow
 bubbling up
   from the  corruption  below ???? ---------------