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"There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me; The sign was painted, it said private property; But on the back side it didn’t say nothing; That side
by pjmorris 7y ago
"There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;
The sign was painted, it said private property;
But on the back side it didn’t say nothing;
That side was made for you and me."
- Woody Guthrie, 'This Land is Your Land' (sometimes this verse goes missing)
- klyrs 7y agoI literally got in trouble for knowing this verse in elementary school. Dad came down with a tape cassette to show the principal what was up. :eyeroll: Funny how Guthrie's communist, anti-borders, anthem got co-opted by nationalists so far that they don't even understand the meaning... this verse couldn't make that cut, though.
- lukifer 7y ago> Funny how Guthrie's communist, anti-borders, anthem got co-opted by nationalists so far that they don't even understand the meaning There is a rich tradition in classical liberalism on the universality of land, predating the ideas of communism/Marxism. For instance, see Thomas Paine's advocacy for a tax on ground rent [0]; so-called "absentee landlords" were associated with royal aristocracies and enclosure [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
- nostrademons 7y agoAlso Georgism and the modern geolibertarian movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism