Jim C. writes: >Since so much of primitive accumulation of original capitalist property that formed the foundations of present-day property and gains is not gained through any "just war", discovery, or sale/gift/bequest of legally titled property, capitalist property continues to be tainted and stolen--and/or the fruits of a poisoned tree--in capitalist terms. For Indigenous Peoples, take in the case of Canada where few traties were signed, even though the colonizing and genocidal occupiers claimed Natives never held proper legal title--in capitalist terms--to Indigenous lands and resources, they nonetheless tried to create, sign and enforce fraudulent treaties that, in effect, recognized, and then sought to have surrendered, Indigenous lands and titles--lands and titles that supposedly Indigenous Peoples never held.<
In his PROGRESS AND POVERTY, Henry George argued that (almost) all of land rent should be taxed away. (The exception is rent that's due to costly improvements in the quality of the land.) To those who see this as theft, he responded that since the land had been stolen from the Indians, the landowners had received stolen goods. In normal bourgeois law, of course, the receipt of stolen goods is itself a crime, and does not justify turning them into one's private property. jd
