in a capitalist socio-economic order it operated as an ‘expropriated state’ devoid of the resources it needed to carry out its tasks

the brief periods of chaotic expropriation that have always undermined the development of Latin America

Over the course of three decades, this small community (pop. 2,700) has built up a ‘communist utopia’ that has expropriated land, built its own housing and co-operatives, kept living costs low, and provided work for everyone.

wine cannot be an entirely happy substance, unless we wrongfully forget that it is also the product of an expropriation

the toys are recognizably like commodities, expropriated from the one who makes them and sent out to travel a long (but never infinite) chain of transactions before they can be allowed to resume their unremarkable existence as objects of use or enjoyment

the imposition of a negative real interest rate--effectively a wealth tax--on all forms of financial wealth expropriates the incomes of savers and might alter expectations of future effective rates of wealth taxes.