Tuesday 15 April 2014

Democracy is bad for the land-establishment

Part of the problem in instigating land reform is that many countries use the first-past-the-post system of voting. With this system it is very difficult for the people (the voters) to remove the establishment from power. The establishment are that group of people who have traditionally ruled and (as a consequence) traditionally owned the land. Because the fptp system makes it difficult to remove the establishment (which might be called the land-establishment) land ownership remains the same. Under fptp the land-establishment remain because the people have no mechanism to remove them. With a fully-proportional system the people will be able to remove the historical land owners and thereby claim land freedom for themselves. The voters can acquire true land ownership for themselves if a proportional system is used. True democracy is favourable to those who have (wrongfully) been excluded from land. Democracy is good for the landless and bad for those who have historically owned the land (the land-establishment).