From WorldSocialism.org:
Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2011 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Chiswick Town Hall, Heathfield Terrace, London W4 4JN
All welcome. Audience participation. Free entry
Discussion between the Socialist Party and David Wetzel.
Former Leader of Hounslow Council and tax reformer Dave Wetzel (see http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/2011/10/dave-wetzel-on-bbc-politics-show.html) subjects his views to the Marxian socialist criticism that a tax on land values will make no difference to the position of the majority class of wage and salary workers as it would still leave the rest of capitalism intact.
That's the whole point about Georgism: it leaves proper capitalism intact, and if anything it helps it (because it prevents corporatism etc). I see that as a big plus, obviously.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Ah well, at least the proper Commies hate us too...
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Yep, good sign, when both old left and landed right hate you.
MikeW
Let me know what they/you have to say about the "social bonus" of being able to confiscate homes, which the real reason for LVT/property tax.
Fuckov.
Mike, of course, worst of all are The Landed Left, i.e. most Labour ex-Ministers, Dr Caroline Lucas, Polly Toynbee, Comrade F who drops in here to insult us etc.
Word on the street is that Dr L owns several houses, which is why they have excised all mention of LVT from the English Green Party manifesto.
Comrade F, it is you who prefers proto-Communist state-allocation/state-rationing of housing to my preferred free-market approach, i.e. price rationing, i.e. LVT.
If LVT is under attack from the Marxists, that's a major selling point.
JH, I guess that the Commies know that with LVT, all their ideas about state planning and control apparatus would be totally superfluous, as there'd be no absolute or relative poverty left for them to exploit as a political tool, that's why they don't like it
Well, good luck to Dave anyway. He's picked a tough crowd to convince. I hope that he manages to make the attendees think a bit, at least.
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