@SiobhanVohn We need to bring processing of primary materials back to remote rural areas. It's the only way we can keep jobs on the land and thus keep people with families on the land and thus keep a viable populated landscape.

See my essay on the Minimum Viable Village!

(We still need full communism now)

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https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2018-07-21-the-minimum-viable-village/

@HeavenlyPossum Every property that has been fenced in, across which you're not allowed to walk, has also been stolen from you.

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"This is just another example of the fact that capitalism simply doesn't work for people, and that we spend an awful lot of time and effort working around the manifest failings of capitalism to produce an economy which supports the many. What the Scottish rural economy needs is full communism now"

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https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2018-07-21-the-minimum-viable-village/

"We do have powers [of land tax] in Scotland. Use those, so that the lairds fund their own progressive clearance" – Alastair McIntosh, talking to @thecommongreen

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https://pca.st/episode/11cd5e84-9703-4995-83e9-2ab168032539

And another, on much the same topic:

"But the unelected UK Supreme Court overruled this. The rights of a landowner arbitrarily to do as he pleased with his land overrode, in their opinion, a tenant farmer's right to home and livelihood. In doing so, they sentenced the farmer in the case, Andrew Riddell, to death, since he shot himself rather than leave the home where his family had lived for over a hundred years."

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https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2015-11-22-feu-duties-and-dereliction/

I often find myself reading through old essays looking for an argument I've made before. And it's worth doing, because many of them are good. Here's one from twelve years ago which bears reposting:

"I've always thought it was interesting how the enclosures — the great land seizure by the elites from the commons — occurred just in the period where the elites no longer had anything to offer the peasantry."

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https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2011-06-11-on-war-and-elites/

@nick Exactly.

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https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2014-12-07-quarter-of-a-million-crofts/

@RickiTarr
And the concept of land ownership is so damaging to society and to the world. It's bizarre that we've allowed it not only to be adopted at all, but to become pervasive.

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@LillyHerself

@Fife4Europe that's true; but you're allowing the capitalist class to capture the value of migrant labour without giving enough back for that labour to have decent permanent homes. That is a direct route to a rural landscape that is only available to the rich.

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