Land in the Neoliberal Times: A Commodity or a Social Good?

Abstract

Developed land could be either used as a commodity to generate profits by the class which owns productive resources, or it could be deployed to create built environment which meets the real and genuine needs of all people excluding none whatsoever from dignified access to housing leading to complete human flourishing. In both cases land is being used as a resource but social motives are quite different in each case. Meeting needs of everyone for human flourishing is quite different from meeting needs of the working classes for the reproduction of labor power, which then is used for accumulation of capital because this process is designed to reproduce only those elements of labor power which are useful for making profits, obviously excluding large swaths of population erroneously designated as urban poor.

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