Property of the Elites

[Jason]

When Castro took over he seized sugar refineries and nationalized them, when Brazil freed it's slaves the owners were not compensated (maybe that was also true in the US). So my question is "What is legitimate property that must be compensated?". During an emancipaton or revolution, should the elite owners of companies or slaves be compensated? What property, according to Communists, is morally justified?

[hetz]

None, what's the point of compensating ex-capitalists?
Maybe we could compensate in a way the small capitalists and others who helped the revolution.

[Jason]

None, what's the point of compensating ex-capitalists?
Maybe we could compensate in a way the small capitalists and others who helped the revolution.

Well, the reason the big time ex-capitalists wouldn't be compensated is because the revolutionaries would believe that their property was fundementally immoral.

Also, a revolution couldn't take place without a destruction (without compensation) of the elite's property. Well, for one thing, the elites would never give up (voluntarily) thier monopolies in Cuba and other places, so the property has to be destroyed without compensation.

[Let's Get Free]

The capitalists will not receive one penny of compensation.

[GoddessCleoLover]

The property is expropriated by the proletariat, not destroyed. IMO the bourgeoisie ought to compensate the proletariat for generations of exploitation and surplus-value extraction. Compensating the bourgeoisie would merely serve to indenture the proletariat to the bourgeoisie thereby undermining the DotP.

[Red Banana]

Seize all their property and leave them with what the average worker would have, then give them a job working somewhere. I don't think we should appease any capitalists in any way during a revolutionary situation, even the small ones.

[Jason]

Castro offered compensation to the US, not sure what it was, but it was rejected.

[GoddessCleoLover]

Castro offered compensation to the US, not sure what it was, but it was rejected.

Very true. Che Guevara made an offer to Kennedy appointee Richard Goodwin that was rejected by the USA because the USA policy at the time was to overthrow the revolution.

[Jason]

Very true. Che Guevara made an offer to Kennedy appointee Richard Goodwin that was rejected by the USA because the USA policy at the time was to overthrow the revolution.

What exactly was the compensation Che proposed?