Reply #17: They're not words. They finally held everyone to the Lancaster agreement

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and Zimbabweans were dying and suffering because of the institutional poverty caused by the theft of land and the concentration of ownership in the hands of corporations which used it to grow tobacco for Europe, the profits of which went into Swiss bank accounts.

Now, after the inevitable displacement during transition, they will be much better off then they ever would have been, thanks to land reform.

Don't you see that the only reason the west hates Mugabe is because land reform will work?

This, to me, is political economics 101, and I find it stunning that so many people don't get it.

It's too obvious.