Land

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...our lands will go next, or be subject to rack rents from haughty and relentless landlords, who will ride at ease, while we are trodden in the dirt.... How long such treatment will or ought to be borne, is submitted.

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["Trinidade", former garimpeiro] You do understand, don't you, that the land is just a beginning? It is not all about the land. It is about a whole transformation that we have to accomplish. The land is just a door we must walk through. Nothing more than a door.

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[Anonymous peasants accosted for seizing crops from a private farmer] The land is for everyone!

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...landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

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...feudalism [is] in itself an absurd system if ever there was one...

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Landed property must inevitably be destroyed, because the injustice, irrationality, and cruelty of this institution have become too obvious. The only question is how it will be abolished.

[Section 7.]

Chronology :

April 11, 2020 : Land -- Added.

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