— AI translation — Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic)
Housing and Land: From Tribute to Communism
Housing to the inhabitant, the workshop to the worker, the land to the peasant.
Régis Portalez
The two sources from which all wealth springs: the soil and the labourer.
— Karl Marx, Capital, Book I, Chapter XV.
- Introduction
- Part One — A theory of rent and space
- 1. Land does not produce, it conditions
- 2. The historical regimes of land allocation
- 3. Rent in Marx: the analysis of the accomplished form
- 4. From land to built space: location as collective product and private toll
- 5. The user and the rentier
- Part Two — A Leninist critique of statistical categories
- 6. Anatomy of the national housing accounts: the toll promoted to production
- 7. The concealment of rent in the nomenclatures
- 8. A critique of contemporary theorists of rent: the apologia and its data
- Part Three — The empirical measurement of capture
- 9. Residential rent: the inhabitant
- 10. Business rent and the production chain: the worker
- 11. The general law and its quantification
- Part Four — Allocating land otherwise
- 12. Abolishing rent: a century of experiments
- 13. Allocation from below
- 14. Property of use: communalising the land, guaranteeing the home
- 15. Democratic allocation: need, sortition, upkeep
- 16. The transition: the decree or the scale
- Appendices
- Bibliography