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socialist critiques of georgism (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by chewgrabonion@lemmy.world to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

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Hello! What are good socialist critiques of georgism?

Let's assume for the sake of argument georgism involves:

-shifting to only taxing inelastic supply items like the unimproved value of land and other simular things like co2eq and radio bands at whatever rate you prefer.

-No taxes on elastic supply items like income, sales, value added, property improvements, estate taxes, etc.

-no seizing the means of production nor outlawing trade

-tax revenue being used for whatever you prefer

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[–] mouseirl@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

All these “socialists” since Colins have this much in common that they leave wage labour and therefore capitalist production in existence and try to bamboozle themselves or the world into believing that if ground rent were transformed into a state tax all the evils of capitalist production would disappear of themselves. 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.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/letters/81_06_20.htm