I heard some of Mugabe's talk on Democracy Now. He said that the British
had promised to finance the purchase of the lands, but then reneged.
Land reform would increase the labor intensity of agriculture.
Brad De Long wrote:
> >Does the justice of Mugabe's land struggle, and national struggle
> >against IMF interference, outweigh the injustices of individual
> >bourgeois democratic rights in that country?
> >
> >Chris Burford
>
> No. Remember, first of all, that the dispossessed are not only white
> farmowners, but Black employees who have worked on those farms. These
> are relatively high-paying jobs for rural Zimbabwe that they are
> losing to political clients of the Mugabe regime.
>
> Remember, second of all, that these farms have over the past decade
> been a powerful source of exports and thus of hard-currency earnings
> with which to finance investment in Zimbabwe.
>
> Brad deLong
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