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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by anigbrowl on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:07PM (#32309915)
The point is that property owners (the ones granting the allotments to keep the poor quiet) are the ones forbidding the use of the allotments for commercial gain.
Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by lmm on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:33PM (#32313887)
Again, allotment holding is distinctly not property ownership. So it's strange to hold this up as an example of property ownership causing oppression when it's the opposite (unless you consider e.g. a feudal lord's position as being "property ownership", which it really wasn't). The point of the claim that property rights create freedom is that a model in which even the poor get to own land outright is far better than the model of sharecroppers/tenant farmers/serfs.