Just read Rebecca Tarlau's article on Bolivia and the real revolutionary leaders of Latin America: the people on the ground. Describing community assemblies and the power of massive mobilizations, Tarlau focuses on the list of demands poor people are making in their community councils, including the nationalization of oil and the retraction of private property rights. She points out that you can change a government, but to really address the problems in a society, you have to structurally change the way people participate in a society to ferment a culture of freedom built on a common vision.

This report is the beginning of my education on the relationship between the WB and private propertization schemes. The most damning report I've read so far is George Caffentzis' "Tale of Two Conferences," which is also posted on this website. Caffentzis accuses the WB of responding to the worldwide revolts against Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) by pushing common property arrangements as a way of controlling indigenous resistance. However, this report on the destructive agrarian reforms of the WB focuses mostly on the sale of land, rather than on the promotion of common property as a subversive method of propertization. These methods are described here in this excerpt from the report: