“It seems that there is a conflict between the big developers, even the minority owners and the tenants. That debate is very polar. The question is what participation the State will have, what position will those who occupy the place after Angela Merkel take ”, said the Mexican academic.
“The concept of expropriation is a bit misleading, because in reality what we intend to do is called socialization, article 15 of the Fundamental Law,” explains Ingrid Hoffmann, one of the spokespersons for the initiative, in an interview with Efe. Post your real name for fear of retaliation.
“For socialization purposes, the land, natural resources and the means of production can be placed under a regime of collective property or other forms of collective management by a law that fixes the mode and amount of compensation,” says the Article 15.
Instead, expropriation is governed by article 14 “and is applied from time to time” to achieve another objective, such as building a highway or opening a mine, and “the people who are expropriated more or less expect to be compensated for the value of market, “although this is not always the case in practice, Hoffmann adds.
With Article 15, the expropriation follows “its own purpose”, that of socialization, of “establishing a common economy system,” he says.