#georgist

[free-land-free-labor]

Hilarious to see people try to project secular politics onto the Papal election. Catholic social teaching is long established and extends far beyond the Catholic Church, generally aligning with the basic socio-political doctrine of most of Christendom.

“He’s anti-abortion, but also pro-environment?”

Yes; that’s basic Catholic (and the consensus in wider Christian) social teaching. Opposing killing babies being “conservative” and supporting conserving the environment being “liberal” is not some fundamental preordained thing. Supporting human rights for unborn children and immigrants and the poor is entirely coherent with opposing the unjust economic structures and the wide ideology of liberal materialism.

[abwwia]

The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as U.S. patent 748,626. A realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism, it is the inspiration for the 1935 board game Monopoly. Via W

Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips (née Magie; May 9, 1866 – March 2, 1948) was an American game designer, writer, feminist, and Georgist. She invented The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly. Via W

Georgism, in modern times also called Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that persons should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations—should belong equally to all members of society. Developed from the writings of American economist and social reformer Henry George, the Georgist paradigm seeks solutions to social and ecological problems based on principles of land rights and public finance that attempt to integrate economic efficiency with social justice. Via W

[may-odaigahara]

I'll be honest I do sorta think that Henry George was the most correct older theorist. He's what many leftists wish Marx was

[derseprinceoftbd]

(youth pastor voice) You kids these days are all about the LTV, but you should be hearing about the good word of the LVT!

[geoistexas]

It is a genuine tragedy that Henry George, upon whose movement's shoulders rests the rest of the progressive movement, is now largely forgotten to history. Many prominent socialists- such as Reading's James Maurer and members of the British Fabian society were Georgists first. Makes me fucking sad, man

[lit-er-ate]

The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as U.S. Patent 748,626. It is a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism. It is the inspiration for the board game Monopoly.

In 1902 to 1903, Magie designed the game and play tested it in Arden, Delaware.[2][3] The game was created to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences". She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some people could find it hard to understand why this happened and what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might be easier to demonstrate. Magie also hoped that when played by children the game would provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness, and that they might carry this awareness into adulthood.

[free-land-free-labor]

My account has gotten some surprise attention so I suppose I ought to have a pinned introduction:

I am:

• From, by, and of the United States.

• A resident and lover of the American West.

• A high church Protestant Christian, baptized into the Episcopal Church, although I deeply admire different expressions of the faith and often flirt with directly apostolic Christianity.

• A college student studying politics and social thought.

• Passionate about learning and discussion.

• A fluent speaker and lover of the English language as well as a typically failing student of other tongues, Spanish premier among them.

• A registered Republican but a stolid critic of much of the MAGA movement and its ridiculous cult of personality around Donald J. Trump, which has turned away from families and care and towards vitriol and isolation.

• A reader and lover of literature of all sorts and an experimenter in the written word myself.

• 19 years old.

• Male.

I believe:

• In ordered liberty as understood by figures such as Tocqueville.

• In the protection of human life, industry, the family, and our environment.

• In human rights for all and compassion as the rule of the land.

• In markets tempered by justice and the importance of wide property ownership such as was understood by classical republican thinkers such as James Harrington and in the physiocratic thought of Henry George.

• In a moral role of leadership for the United States to play in the world.

• In the Nicene Creed and scriptures.

• In civil dialogue.

• In liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

• That our republic was culturally founded by Plymouth and politically most earnestly founded in liberty in accord with its conception that all men are created equal by the brave heroes of the 1860s and the Union’s cause.

• That democracy depends on a culture of virtue, civil society, and pluralism.

I love:

• My Lord, the triune God whose person the Son took flesh and suffered as Christ.

• My girlfriend, the most amazing and beautiful lady in the world.

• My nation, the sentinel of liberty the world over.

[free-land-free-labor]

I’ve been on a huge 17th century Britain kick of late but it truly is remarkable to me that there hasn’t been an extensive study of the political philosophy of the 1653-1660 Commonwealth. In typical academic fashion, there are plenty of Marxist studies of fringe radicals that miss the central cast of Oliver Cromwell, Charles Fleetwood, etc.