This class, who desired to own their own land, were believed to have been won over and pacified by the expropriation of the owners of the large estates.
The address in reply to the speech from the throne, voted after a debate in which abstract theories had triumphed over common sense, demanded universal suffrage, the establishment of pure parliamentary government, the abolition of capital punishment, the expropriation of the landlords, a political amnesty, and the suppression of the Imperial Council.
Never before did any real revolutionist interpret social expropriation as the transfer of wealth from one set of individuals to another.
Expropriation often is accompanied by infringements of the third ingredient, individual liberty, as well.
Long term, this hurts nations more than expropriation has helped them.