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In the beginning of the nineties
we witnessed how after the failure of the idea of common property in the socialist
East the cooperatives land was given back to the original owners. It was done
in the name of restoring the legal rights of the owners from whom in the 50es
the reform confiscated the land. Back then the reformists of those times were
also trying to do a redistribution of the land and give a chance to the poor people
by transforming a whole society and forcing them to learn about sharing things
in common. Now here, in the postsocialist East, in the recent years we witness
again a processus of redistribution in which this time the banks and other private
corporations are speculating and taking the land by using loans and credits from
a lot of people. Land and land distribution means currency, reform or poverty,
depending on geographical, historical or socio-political conditions. Nowadays
in Venezuela the land is redistributed to poorer people in order to give them
a chance to start their own small self sufficient farms. They use analog VHS tape
to fence the land and to create smaller random units meant to host families. They
make use of a product of our consumerist society in an archaic way in order to
produce a new situation, they are struggling for their future.
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