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Henry George (September 2, 1839 -- October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy.
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Some Quotes from the Great but forgotten servant to American federal democracy.
It is interesting the many parallels to the current debauchery of American Bi Partisan crony politics. The Bankers of course being the new Robber Barons in Chief as opossed to mere willing acomplices in chief in the 1890´s that Henry Geroge spoke of so eloquently and damingly.
´´What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power´´.
Henry George
´´He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it´´.
Henry George
´´Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital´´.
Henry George
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´´Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
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´´Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power´´.
Henry George
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´´Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over´´.
Henry George
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´´As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance´´.
Quoted in John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert Westbrook (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 440; cited in Understanding Power (2002) by Noam Chomsky, ch. 9, footnote 16; originally from "The Need for a New Party" (1931) by John Dewey, Later Works 6, p. 163. (Via Westbrook.)
Peace by Standing Army
Henry George
[A speech delivered at the labour meeting, Cooper Union, New York, 12 July, 1894, in which Henry George called for protest against President Cleveland's sending Federal troops to Chicago during the great railroad strike]
Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens:
I COME here to-night, at considerable personal inconvenience, to discharge what I believe to be a duty. I come here to talk to you, as I have always talked, frankly and plainly. In some things I do not agree with the men who have invited me to come here. In some things I probably differ from the majority of this audience. I do not believe in strikes. (Hisses and faint cheers.) I am not disposed to denounce George M. Pullman. (Prolonged hisses and groans.) I come here as a citizen, as a Democrat -- (Slight applause, followed by hisses and groans, continuing for several minutes)
What is the reason that we are building ships of war and increasing the size of our army? It is because the millionaire monopolists are becoming afraid of a poverty- stricken people which their oppressive trusts and combinations are creating. It is because great wealth, unjustly acquired, always wants the security of standing armies and navies. (Long cheering.)
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