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Very 21st Century Jun 24, 2009
By Wyneth C. Achenbaum
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This book includes several different documents, which since their first publication have always been published together. The first initially was issued as "The Irish Land Question" but soon appeared under the title "The Land Question" because what was so patently obvious with respect to land in Ireland in the late 19th century was, at its root, universally true.
And today we see manifestations of "The Land Question" everywhere around us. An hour of listening to the BBC World Service brings up several examples.
Most of us are conditioned to take land, and, in its larger sense, the entire natural creation, for granted, and not to think a great deal about its unique qualities and our individual and joint dependence on them. Political economy seems to subsume "land" under "capital" -- and this fuzzy thinking obfuscates large and important realities and has lead to many of our most serious social, economic, justice, environmental and other problems.
I commend this book to your attention. Each of its sections stands on its own: The Land Question; the "discussion" between the landholding Duke of Argyll and Henry George; and Pope Leo's Encyclical "Rerum Novarum" and Henry George's response to what he saw as fuzzy thinking, under the title, "The Condition of Labor." (The latter was abridged elsewhere under the title "The Labor Question.")
You might also be on the lookout for a film entitled "The End of Poverty? Think Again" parts of which come out of Henry George's ideas.
To precise thinking, and to ending involuntary poverty in the world! It can be done, and, as the banner in my grade school said, knowledge is power.
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