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Land (n.) held ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as national property — the imagined right of a people to own its soil — has in every epoch bred suzerainty, tribute, royal prerogative and forced labour.

Land (n.) improved ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠by earth-capital — drainage, fertilizer, levelling — is turned from mere raw material into fixed capital.

Land (n.) left ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠untilled has a price though no one works it — a reflection that capital and labour cast on the empty field next door, and the whole basis of land speculation.

Land (n.) permanently ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠improved almost always boils down to giving one patch, by labour, what the land next door has by nature.

Land (n.) when ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the peasant purchases it is not an investment in agriculture but a withdrawal from it, since the money leaves the sphere of production, shrinks his means and delivers him to the usurer.