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Is this the kind of critique you're looking for? >A common explanation of Georgism’s failure is that the philosophy itself is flawed and, ultimately, would str
by scythe 4y ago
Is this the kind of critique you're looking for?
>A common explanation of Georgism’s failure is that the philosophy itself is flawed and, ultimately, would strengthen collectivism and the state, not individualism. In this vein Tucker asked a fundamental question: How can a collective like society own land if such ownership is improper for individuals? Either land could be owned by an individual — and, thus, sold or transferred to another individual — or it was not subject to ownership at all. He considered collective ownership to be a contradiction in terms. Or, as Tucker might ask, “Can I sell my share? No? Then I don’t own it either individually or as part of a collective.”
>It is to such critiques of Georgism that Part II of this article will turn.
Granted, that might be a good criticism of Georgism from the perspective of a committed anarchist, but I was expecting, you know, economics.
- yellowapple 4y agoSuch a critique also misses the point of Georgism. A land value tax is pointless if there's no state, because without a state there's no private ownership of land in the first place. Georgism is a reaction to statism - that is, if there's going to be a state using its monopoly on violence to enforce exclusive claims of ownership over that state's sovereign territory, then such statism should at the absolute least benefit society as a whole instead of only benefiting landowners at everyone else's expense.