land reform

Somoza’s corruption and violence had alienated even Nicaragua’s business classes, and a broad popular front implemented a mixed economy promoting popular organization, land reform and the socialization of basic services.

In the 1930s this was a “Soviet base” for the Communist Red Army, and one of the first places in China to complete “land reform.”

Land-reform in its earliest stages, like trade unionism in England, was accompanied by disorder.

Land reform has not yet advanced equally far, and will probably be reserved for the next burst of democratic energy.

A sound land reform must—in this country at least—set its face in precisely the contrary direction.

The Unionists were determined to defeat land reform, and absolute Ministerialist unity was necessary to frustrate their design.

The new Kuomintang was more socialistic, as is shown by its admission of Communists and the stress laid upon land reform.