• Graylitic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Georgism isn’t leftist. Leftism is inherently based in rejection of Private Property rights, while Georgism is about managing Private Property Rights. Georgism is to the left of pure Laissez-faire Capitalism, but cannot be considered leftist.

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      1 year ago

      Georgism is 1 policy. It can be combined with other policies such worker democracy and common ownership of the means of production.

      The labor theory of property actually supplies one of the strongest arguments for workers’ self-management. The negative application of which is an ethical basis of Georgism