GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – AOTEAROA: LAND OF THE WRONG WHITE RENT SEEKERS. PART TWO – SOCIALISING LAND, LABOUR AND CAPITAL
The struggle for land rights at IhumÄtao reveals the âsecretâ of capitalist society in Aotearoa much more dramatically than the case of Mr Peel on the Swan River in Western Australia. MÄori land was privatized by confiscation, collective labour privatized as wage-labour, and the value produced on the land expropriated as absolute rent for many generations. The recent âsettlementâ at IhumÄtao ignores this history, nationalizes the land from the private owners, yet expects the mana whenua to jointly manage a public reserve with some provision for housing. Private la...
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