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A healthy private sector.

At the very least, if you're going to redistribute the wealth, redistribute it. Don't just confiscate it all for the State in the name of the "people." Encourage private ownership of the land, and allow the owners to benefit from it. Remember the small private plots in the U.S.S.R., which produced far more than the collective farms.

Note that Venezuela is only giving the poor the right to work land as part of "cooperatives," not individual owners. And they can't sell the land even if they want to.

Collectivized agriculture has screwed up every single time it has been tried on any large scale. Leftists are convinced that collectivism works because it ought to work, and the conclusive evidence of history and their own eyes be damned.

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