The Decadent Worker

LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES MONOPOLY is the principal weapon of genocidal racism in causing holocaustal famines and imperialist wars in today’s world. The Stat eis an outgrowth of the state. Nation-states in origin are federations of feudal estates. Ground rents were the ancient form of taxation of which taxes paid to governments are now just a consolidated variation. Rents are as coercive a form of tribute as taxes. Both contribute to maintaining an aristocratic elite called lords and ladies of the land or landlords and landladies.

As socialist states abolish this elite it is generally their custom to supplant it with a state bureaucracy of collective agriculture, etc., although Nicaraguan politicians are so far taking a more workable course of dividing up estates and apportioning plots of land to individual families. State landlordis as it exists in Russia and China is as exploitive as private landlordism without being as efficient in food production (although subsequent distribution is far more just). In Cambodia under Pol Pot it was this form of collective land tenure that caused massive starvation.

So opposition to private absentee landlordism, when advocating public absentee landlordism, is no greater mark of economic sanity in a world where one out of every three individuals goes to bed hungry every night. Only public grazing pastures — the public commons of old — lend themselves to collective management. Homesteading is far more effective for the direct production of food crops, however.

Voluntary grange co-ops for sharing farm equipment and storage and marketing facilities — not farm land — are also a desirable form of communalism in most instances. This, however, would be true in many industries where land is not a significant factor as well. It is the absentee control of land & natural resources adhering to or in land that comprises the chief economic factor contributing to both starvation and slavery.

Within conspiracy politics the organizations opposing estate landlordism and similar traditional raw material monopolism are rumored to tend in the direction of sexism and authoritarianism usurpative of individual rights in general. So although the Yellow Turban Society must avoid collaborating with absentee landlords and their economic co-conspirators such as oil majors, it cannot always sanction every organization opposed to private land monopolies either. Until the contradictions within the anti-monopolist organization in accord with natural rights, we will in many instances have to maintain neutrality, siding neither with the absentee land holders nor their authoritarian foes.

Whenever there is a viable choice to oppose feudalist landlordism without usurping the rights of persons, we should take that option. A tribalist federation devoted to defending the privileges of land and natural resource monopolists would become just another fascist secret society.

— Ho Chi Zen, Teachings of the Yellow Turban Society (Law), Articles 39-44, written in the autumn of 1985

“…many farmers in these regions remain perpetually poor because of feudal land tenure and millennia-old debt systems. These systems tax tenant farmers for large portions of their crops and also offer no relief from debt burdens, which usually continue from generation to generation, without being paid off.” –Donald G. Schroeder, “Why World Food Glut Amidst Hunger & Starvation?” The Plain Truth July-August 1987, p. 15

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