0 present participle of expropriate
1 to take away money or property especially for public use without payment to the owner, or for personal use illegally:
He was discovered to have been expropriating company funds.
In none of the theoretical literature was the possibility of expropriating a large number of individuals advocated or even considered.
Thus, rather than violating their property rights, expropriating their farms restores property to those who are morally entitled to it.
On the other hand, if expropriating white farms is morally justified today, then it is justified regardless of why, or for what goals, the liberation struggle was fought.
Doing so will require that the government be able to provide credible commitments that it will not respond to invasions by expropriating the land and settling the group that invaded.
We are not expropriating something which belongs to private capitalists.
It is no use villifying them, smearing them, harrying them, threatening them and, finally, expropriating them.
There is no question of expropriating the freeholder's asset.
Secondly, they must stop expropriating outside assets and so restore the standard of living.
