Bourke's residents recently rallied to protest at the loss of what some say is the region's most productive property.
But by the late 20th century little of Marxism remained in the policies of the CCP, as economic reforms increasingly favoured private ownership of productive property and encouraged market competition.
Saint-Simon did not call for public ownership of productive property, but he did advocate public control of property through central planning, in which scientists, industrialists, and engineers would anticipate social needs and direct the energies of society to meet them.
To maximize profits and free capital for fresh development elsewhere, they are cutting back on workers and investment in the North Sea, and selling some less productive properties to smaller companies that make a specialty of squeezing oil from them.
To be economically sustainable, our redevelopment must also be focused on sustaining our quality of life -- preserving our open space, protecting our drinking water and recycling and reusing formerly productive properties instead of gobbling up our precious few virgin ones.
Not to mention the scenery: looming behind the village are the stone peaks of the Mendel mountain range, and the surrounding land has become some of the most valuable and productive agricultural property in all of Europe.
Double-digit housing inflation is not merely creating appalling social problems and division between classes and generations but grossly distorting investment from productive activities to property holding.
There are solutions that should eventually reduce the need for wage subsidies – better training, financial reforms to encourage productive investments over property speculation, and perhaps also the devolution of power to the regions that Mr Osborne has embraced.
If elite groups are the only ones with the expertise and access to capital to make more productive use of property, and if, as at Letpadaung Mountain, they often acquire those rights at the expense of marginalised people, it may be that greater property security for the likes of the villagers of Ah Lay Daw would actually result in slower growth, says Ms Lawson-Remer.
In their quest for higher cash returns the rich have diverted resources from job-creating consumption and productive investment into property and other positional goods (art, for example), as well as speculative financial instruments.To make up for this extraction of effective demand, governments and consumers have been forced to borrow.
Throughout the decade of the sixties, and as a consequence of the revolutionary laws that ultimately confiscated all productive and lucrative property, that initial definition had to be expanded, adding the labels "the landowners and exploiters of the humble," and "those who are trying to return to the shameless capitalist past," and other similar class epitaphs.
