by alan | Sep 22, 2021 | anarchism, economics, georgism
Implement the universal ethic into the constitution, so that there be no restriction or imposed cost on acts which do not coercively harm others. Replace existing taxes with public revenue from user fees, pollution charges, and land value. Replace mass democracy with...
by alan | Sep 22, 2021 | georgism
Fred Folvary Conventional macroeconomics lacks a warranted explanation of the major business cycle, while the Austrian and geo-economic (Georgist) schools have incomplete theories. A geo-Austrian synthesis, in contrast, provides a potent theory consistent with...
by alan | Sep 21, 2021 | georgism
Land value taxation is impeded by the same national sentiment that has reacted so strongly to the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision. That decision has sparked an intense national debate over the private property versus land use regulation and, ultimately, over the ability...
by alan | Sep 20, 2021 | georgism
from John Ikerd, July 2008 In 1879, Henry George, a journalist and philosopher, proposed to abolish all taxation save that upon land values in his classic book, Progress and Poverty. He suggested that people were not poor because of any lack of productivity of either...
by alan | Sep 17, 2021 | anarchism, authority, liberty, tucker
Probably no agitation has ever attained the magnitude, either in the number of its recruits or the area of its influence, which has been attained by Modern Socialism, and at the same time been so little understood and so misunderstood, not only by the hostile and the...
by margaret | Sep 15, 2021 | georgism
Chapter I The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—Necessary Relation of These Laws The preceding examination has, I think, conclusively shown that the explanation currently given, in the name of political economy, of the problem we are attempting to solve, is...
by alan | Sep 9, 2021 | naturalism, neo-luddism
Chellis Glendinning Most students of European history dismiss the Luddites of 19th century England as “reckless machine-smashers” and “vandals” worthy of mention only for their daring tactics. Probing beyond this interpretation, though, we find a complex, thoughtful,...
by margaret | Sep 24, 2020 | anarchism, insurrection, robert taber
I. The wind of revolution. Popular will as the key to strategy. The confrontation of the haves and the have-nots. Fallacies of counter-insurgency. Guerrilla war as an extension of politics. Cracks in the armor of the modern state. ‘They just lured us through...
by Idan Rednaxus | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
1 Separation of Education and State 2 Separation of Health and State 3 Separation of Land and State 4 Separation of Commerce and State
by margaret | Mar 30, 2020 | art, transformation, transition
In every psychic experience, even in the production of a work of art, there exists a nucleus that is impossible to transform. It resists any and every action against itself. We are used to dealing with these irreducible and radical othernesses by adapting them to our...
