The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation making it illegal for the Chinese Communist Party to own property in Arizona. But SB 1342, the proposal by Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, goes
No one should own land. But banning foreign people from owning land is just xenophobia if it is done under capitalism and not concurrently with banning people in the country from doing so
eh, you could argue a lot of american land is colonized by other americans. wealth funnels out of poor neighborhoods into rich ones, and pigs are just the occupying army stopping people from restoring themselves. However, it definitely isn't a foreign colonization. Although the proportion of european descendants with power over POC either native american or otherwise also sort of works here. But it is a loose idea and blocking land purchase wouldn't stop that.
Off-shoring every job to China is the best thing that ever happened, says the neoliberal, but now we need to go to war with China because they took all our jobs.
banning foreign people from owning land is just xenophobia
It harnesses xenophobia towards a leftist end. But limiting land ownership to the land's residents is a fundamentally communist idea. The xenophobia only really comes into play when you're denying people the right to travel, trade, and cohabitate together.
Banning people from demanding a tithe from land they've never set foot on isn't xenophobic at all.
They can't just legislate away something like that without broad buy in from their national bourgeoisie. Capital needs places to invest. Capital is international. American nationals own property in China, Chinese nationals own property in America. Banning Chinese nationals (or German, British, French, Indian, Egyptian, Philippino, etc.) from buying property in one country invites counter action from the other country.
No one should own land. But banning foreign people from owning land is just xenophobia if it is done under capitalism and not concurrently with banning people in the country from doing so
In a colonial context, it's preventing rich foreigners from buying up all the capital in your country and funneling out the wealth.
However, the US is not in a colonial context.
eh, you could argue a lot of american land is colonized by other americans. wealth funnels out of poor neighborhoods into rich ones, and pigs are just the occupying army stopping people from restoring themselves. However, it definitely isn't a foreign colonization. Although the proportion of european descendants with power over POC either native american or otherwise also sort of works here. But it is a loose idea and blocking land purchase wouldn't stop that.
For sure. Regarding internal colonies, the case for land & capital redistribution becomes very clear
"Land speculators are ruining the economy and making it impossible to buy a house. Please help"
"Sure thing. We've banned the Chinese from buying houses here so that should help a lot"
"What about the non-Chinese land speculators?" :)
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"What about the non-Chinese land speculators?" :|
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Off-shoring every job to China is the best thing that ever happened, says the neoliberal, but now we need to go to war with China because they took all our jobs.
It harnesses xenophobia towards a leftist end. But limiting land ownership to the land's residents is a fundamentally communist idea. The xenophobia only really comes into play when you're denying people the right to travel, trade, and cohabitate together.
Banning people from demanding a tithe from land they've never set foot on isn't xenophobic at all.
They can't just legislate away something like that without broad buy in from their national bourgeoisie. Capital needs places to invest. Capital is international. American nationals own property in China, Chinese nationals own property in America. Banning Chinese nationals (or German, British, French, Indian, Egyptian, Philippino, etc.) from buying property in one country invites counter action from the other country.
I don't doubt enforcement is going to be limited to people who don't benefit from a powerful retaliatory state.
It might never get used at all. Just dangled over people's heads to inflict stress and provoke terror.
Yea that’s why it’s targeted at CPC members. Completely toothless because why wouldn’t they just buy through a shell corp