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  • Rural land is organized in communes, you can move to the countryside from the city, but you must be invited into the commune or rent from it as a tenant, costing you for the privilege of using their land.

    The cities are only so big as they are developed, and growth takes time and energy. Due to the market, living in the cities costs more, so you can move from the countryside to the cities, if you can afford it (i.e. stable job), which is hard because the city can only plan for so many jobs in any given time.

    Moving like that is difficult, and is more expensive than staying put, because the real economic cost of such a move has an expensive impact on the whole economy. This applies everywhere, which is why some lineages haven’t left Southside Chicago or South Central LA since it those neighborhoods were redlined, and the life expectancy is almost a decade shorter than the metro average:

    Movement only “feels free” in the US, because much of the population is able to pay for the freedom of movement (using surplus labor).

    This system is also partially why many of the big cities are provinces in their own. It gives provincial, and hukuo powers to the urbanites to decide how they want to grow (within the constraints of the overall state plan). In the US, instead it’s often people with freedom cash pushing out existing urbanites, sometimes into the outskirts, sometimes into more concentrated enclaves, sometimes onto the streets.








  • For tailing it’s falling for the 80% of landlords that are “small” crying about corporate competition in their little dictatorships: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6510977/5686588

    The thought that they’d buy single family homes to rent out is novel to me at least; I’d never heard of such a thing before.

    They started getting involved in SFH after the foreclosures of 08, because they did not lose much relative net worth compared to people who own 1-10 homes, who lost net worth on all their assets at that time. They didn’t get involved before that because not many people were renting SFH in the 80s and 90s and prior, those homes were only for the middling strata and up. Also, by just financing homes in the past while prices continued to rise, there was no reason to get their hands involved to add more work when they can just seek interest on all development. When hundreds of thousands of homes suddenly became available, that’s when they took the opportunity to turn it into a business. And yeah I’m minimizing them because they are indeed a minimal (0.6% of all SFH stock) component of the market and concentrated in a few markets, but that is not tied to the overall indeces of those markets whatsoever. Any investor who owns the home would have the same position as any other, corporate or “mom and pop”, the resulting market will be the same.

    Liberal/Petty Bourgeois media is taking advantage of the novelty of corporate investors in SFH to use us to fight for protections backing “small investors” worth millions against competition.

    Housing costs (and building) are raising extra fast post 2009 because they received basically 0% interest rates to finance more homes to “recover” from the financial crisis. That corporate investors got in at that time is a simultaneous symptom of the crisis, which always benefits the highest bourgs as they eat up small capital owners (good riddance).

    There is finally the last aspect that SFH cities or neighborhoods have become the “standard model” of US housing culture since the early 2000s, this is related to the eventual financial crisis too.


  • Artificial scarcity isn’t real in the housing market

    There has never been more houses to workers in the US than ever before, supply and demand is hardly a factor in the price of ground rents, those are directly tied into Imperialism’s health.

    Corporate investors cannot raise prices above the whole market, and if they do, all homeowners (the majority of which are “proletarians”) benefit the same, so they all engage in price raising politics.

    Housing prices == rents and vice versa. If housing prices collapse so will rents, because they are the same thing. As long as someone or something is able to purchase at an ever increasing price, housing costs will continue to rise.

    This battle over purchasing houses, is between the petty Bourgeoisie and the haute Bourgeoisie. The only difference between mortgaging out and paying rent is whether a so-called worker can profit from their investment in years time, it’s a class transition into the petty Bourgeoisie. You can look at historical charts that the price differences for renting vs loans is most often favorable towards renting, but the differences are slight.

    These are also SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, 15% are rented out, 4% of those are rented out by corporations, so 0.6% of all SFH are owned to rent by corps, that 0.6% of landlords is raising the prices of all homes country wide? Besides, SFH should be for the most part destroyed for climate reasons when Socialism comes.




    1. Housing prices and rents always go up, because it’s mandated by state policy. Rents == Prices because home values are tied to expected rents.

    2. “Institutional Investors” own at most 4% of SFH rental housing, this is not total SFH just the 15% that are rented out. Corporations are a minor factor of homeowners, whom nearly all are bourgeois. No matter who is speculating, the result is the same. Rents have always risen and rises are not at all tied to the % of corporate investors involved.

    3. Of all SFH, less than 10% is owned by “investors” 8/10 of those are “mom and pop”.

    “Corporations” are a red herring in the housing question, the fault is the bourgeois structure of US housing culture which empowers tens of millions of people to surplus value and property rights.

    Y’all need to read Engels on the Housing Question, don’t tail the petty bourgeoisie on this.




  • KaffetoThoughts on ...?Thoughts on the EFF?
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    I don’t care about Malema’s business ties, the right wingers of your country will say anything about the man that threatens their money, he gets asked about these things all the time just listen to what he has to say.

    Yes Mao allied with the pro-China landlords to rid the Japanese and comprador elements first, then confronted the domestic exploiter classes when Imperialism no longer had a foothold in the realm. This is why if wealthy Zulus are willing to support the EFF and the South African workers against interference from Europe, US, and Japan, they can receive preferential treatment compared to those wealthy people working to sabotage South Africans for personal gain (compradors), in the Chinese revolution, bourgs that allied with Communists retained democratic privileges, but unlike workers and peasants, for Bourgs they could be revoked.

    Regardless, the EFF does not discriminate in their land nationalization program:

    There’s no need to waste bullets on Boers who don’t pick up arms against the people. Kill the Boer wouldn’t be a rallying cry for Black people if the history of ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous didn’t occur, white South Africans need to relax and understand they created the situation they are in, and should follow along peacefully in the road away from Imperialism.

    Btw I don’t care for this poor settler farmer schtick. Farmers are not poor because they are an oppressed class, some farmers are poor because they have to speculate against the market to hit the most favorable prices, and necessarily some of them can’t sell at the right margins. They are effectively day trading stock holders looking for margins except their stocks can rot or be eaten by rats, and they cost a lot of labor to move around. Poor farmers can join the majority of poor people that are Black and follow them into re-education and re-skilling for new jobs, or just follow the state’s plans and be normal about it.

    I guess the last thing to talk about is the SACP, who fucking sucks and is just as Revisionist as the CPUSA et al. SACP would rather ally with black and white billionaires than take a principled stance on Decolonization (land reform, detaching from Imperialism, resolving internal national/“race”/“ethnic” disparities).


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    EFF is not racist against white people, EFF wishes to decolonize you settlers.

    You and your people are invaders on Indigenous land and you still own the majority of farmland as a tiny minority. Small farmers can work for the state if they wish to keep farming. The EFF position in expropriation without compensation is correct in every sense, Mao would laugh if you asked him if small Japanese can keep their stolen land in China. Your petty Bourgeoisie is frankly hysterical, and it’s clear you’ve been raised by them.

    There’s no fascism, you do not understand what fascism is. Your people are the ones who instituted fascism against Black people.

    OP I’m sorry to say that you were raised by siege crackerism

    And when Malema is saying he doesn’t know the future, he’s saying because it was not more than the recent past that your people were routinely killing Black and colored people. If your people would rather kill Black people than redistribute land for Socialism then why should we expect the EFF to be peaceful? If you accept expropriation there’s no need to kill anyone. Your media uses “race” hysteria to push y’all away from the EFF and their progressive vision for Africa. BTW “Kill the Boer” is a protest song for and by Black people when your people were killing them with the weapons of state. You’re gonna have to deal with being the spawn of fascist filth, and grow into a real thinking human for the first time in your life. It’s not your fault as an individual, the structure of Boer and British Colonialism has made your material conditions objectively fascist.

    White member of the EFF criticizing racists in a Cape Town suburb (news clip featuring anti-EFF voices too).

    Same EFF member

    If my words sound harsh, I’m only trying to expedite your likely collapse into Trotskyism at best, fascism in the likely, if you open your mind to reality, you can save yourself and become a real revolutionary. If you cannot first understand the forces that created you, you will never be on the side of Revolution in Africa. This is a tough pill to swallow but every settler must whether in SA, Israel, Canada, or the “USA”.