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Georgism

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Georgism is a Utopian Socialist ideology that advocates for workers owning the value their labor creates, with the only tax collected by the state being from land ownership. Georgism is named after Henry George, a reformist and social libertarian best known for his book Progress and Poverty.

Karl Marx held a very negative view towards both Henry George and Georgism as an ideology, saying[1]

"He understands nothing about the nature of surplus value and so wanders about in speculations which follow the English model but have now been superseded even among the English... The whole thing is therefore simply an attempt, decked out with socialism, to save capitalist domination and indeed to establish it afresh on an even wider basis than its present one."

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Karl Marx (1881-06-20). "Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge"