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Henry George's First Book

It was titled "Our Land and National Policy" and actually the first book that he wrote which also proposed a tax on land values. This is not generally appreciated. It was published in 1871. Macrocompassion (talk) 14:25, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Henry George and Karl Marx

I find that comparing George to his contemporaries and offering more historical context is illuminating, though perhaps too speculative or original to be included in the Wikipedia article about him.

George is described as being a Lincoln Republican at one point. Lincoln read and admired Marx. Marx was widely read via his long running and popular English language column in the New York Tribune, one of the world's most popular newspapers at the time. It's very possible that Lincoln read these columns (Lincoln doesn't appear to have had much of a personal library), though many radical German and Prussian socialist and marxist immigrants also fought brilliantly for the Union (ex: Gen. August Willich) with whom Lincoln is also likely to have had some contact.

George seems to have been a type setter at a major US newspaper at the same time as Marx's column. His claim that he didn't read Marx is curious. Maybe he meant he hadn't read Capital, which isn't an easy read. It's also interesting that George's position (or lack thereof) on the politically dominant issue of the US Civil War isn't mentioned.

As for Marx's opinion of George and Georgism-

"Conceding that George was "a writer of talent," Marx insisted that '*the man is in theory completely *behind the times. ' He understands nothing of the nature of surplus value."

"Karl Marx considered the single-tax platform as a regression from the transition to communism and referred to Georgism as "capitalism's last ditch". Fieldlab (talk) 12:40, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]