'Communist' Zimbabwe Steals All Farmland

Genocidal left-wing dictator Robert Mugabe, who has already turned Zimbabwe from a breadbasket into a basket case, announced today that he was taking all remaining farmland he hasn't already stolen.

"There shall be no such thing as private land," decreed John Nkomo, minister of "land reform," who apparently never heard about similar catastrophic "reforms" imposed by the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Cuba and other communist dictatorships.

The regime will not "waste time and money" in disputes on seizures of farms whose owners hold deeds and other legal documents, Nkomo said. "Ultimately all land shall be resettled as state property."

Even black families who in recent years were handed once-successful farms stolen from murdered whites will lose "their" land.

John Robertson, an economist in Harare, rejected the dictatorship's claim that leases doled out and sold by the regime would serve as collateral for farmers to obtain supplies.

"The banks aren't going to lend to an individual against a lease that belongs to the state. It doesn't work that way. You can't borrow on the strength of something you don't own," he said.

"It is a very big step away from a market economy to the communist-style command economy of state control of the factors of production."

The Stalinesque Mugable once admitted planning to starve millions of those opposing his dictatorship. Stealing every farm in the nation will be a huge boost to that scheme.

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