Farmers want change too. The past few years have seen an upsurge of peasant protests, many of them about the rapid encroachment of cities into rural land. As this survey will argue, China needs another ownership revolution, this time in the countryside. One of the most damaging and socially divisive legacies of Maoist economics is the control of rural land by village “collectives”. The rights of farmers in these collectives are ill- defined. In practice, rural governments regard the land as theirs and use it to fill their coffers. Many millions of farmers have been pushed off their fields with little if any compensation, and anger is growing.
这段话是我在世界知名杂志economist上看到的，由此联想起以前的一些想法，与大家分享和讨论。
集体所有制的确已经变味了，在体制和法制不健全下市场经济的畸形确实改变了毛的“理想”。
土地私有制并不是土地兼并的根源，黄仁宇等许多学者的著作中已略显端倪。中国的土地兼并，很大程度是因为商业未能展开，私人资本没有出路，土地作为唯一资产保值增值的出路，土地兼并也许也是无办法之举。而现今中国在改革开放之后，商业已呈现欣欣向荣的景象。
也许是在现在中国，土地作为稀缺资源，国家仍想将其控制在公有制的范围内。而在农村的土地问题，违法征用，违法出买使用权，已经见怪不怪，从中获益的只是少数人。
只有自己的东西，自己才会珍惜。所以，我觉得，应该还土地给农民，同时加强私有制的保护力度。作者:
大风车 时间: 2006-9-7 13:18
