[RightWhale]

During the Long March Mao’s minions pulled up survey markers and burned deeds. Eventually private land ownership will return fully and the farmers and their neighbors will know where their corners are when the time comes.

[americanophile]

Time to throw the baby out with the bath water! A new Chinese revolution...a Democratic one!

[Red Boots]

It could be a revolution," says Hu Xingdou, an economics professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology. "Privatization of land is a foundation of democracy and the rule of law in China, because land is a basic resource."

I wish we could have a few politicians who understood that... It will be interesting if China undergoes a resurgance of freedom; as we fall under the increasingly heavy hand of the state.

[BenLurkin]

Their land has been taken from them — for the common good of course.

[Khepri]

McCain, being an admirer of Chairman Mao, he knows how to end this heretical land grab. If only the Chinese government were smart enough to ask him.

[Grizzled Bear]

Mao had more sense then Mugabe. He let the people who KNEW HOW TO FARM continue to do so!