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 

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