Is land reform therefore a useless bourgeois scheme?
. Oleg doesn’t want to look this reality in the face. Neither does Julie. She assumes that if one only adopted better policies, one could avoid class differentiation in the countryside. She thinks you can merge “socialist measures” into a land reform program under capitalism–and Oleg presumably believes that this will be, not full and permanent socialism to be sure, but a partial and temporary step towards socialism. . All this amounts to closing one’s eyes to reality. It hinders activists from adopting revolutionary policies for dealing with the actual class differentiation that is going on–such as organizing the rural proletariat and semi-proletariat, supporting the class struggle in the countryside, etc. . But Oleg implies that if land reform and other measures will ultimately give an impetus to capitalism, then they’re useless. He quotes me saying that “the most radical democratic measures in the countryside, measures that eliminate the marginalization of the indigenous people, p
