i would like to know why some people scream "COMMUNISM!!!", specially in USA, when any kind of social initiative is proposed.
I know why, but it's just ridiculous. > During the U.S. occupation of Japan, land reform was one of the most > important and effective polices. It made a tremendous contribution to > ensuring that democracy survived and that rural people could live decently, > without starving or selling their daughters into prostitution they way they > had to do before the war. > > Land reform, along with all of the other occupation initiatives, was > designed in Washington during the last years of the war. The policy was set > long before the occupation began. Under this policy, MacArthur's GHQ > ordered the Japanese government buy land from large landowners and > distribute it to the tenant farmers who were working the land. Because of > the rampant inflation, the government paid essentially nothing for that > land. That is to say, they set prices and paid months or years later, when > the value of money had fallen by a huge factor. > > No modern society can survive without some measure of redistribution from > wealthy people to middle class and poor people. This necessity is imposed > by our technology, in manufacturing and farming. We will soon need much > more redistribution, to nearly everyone: > > http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/ > > There is nothing morally wrong with this. It is how our machinery works. > If you want to live in a high tech modern society, you must have an economy > that fits it. > > - Jed > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
