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Quotes and memes from Henry George and other cat see-ers
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I would guess both Douglass and George drew from Paine:
"It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, cultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."
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"The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breath the air⎯it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world and others no right." – Progress and Poverty
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This is for you @georgiststeve.bsky.social
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But if you consider instead that Ireland was directly adjacent to the center of world maritime trade, then it seems that the inability to get food into Irish mouths in fact stemmed from their financial inability to purchase it
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I should think that the first person enslaved in what is now the United States was a Patuxet man; the Irish were essentially never held in conditions of slavery in the United States
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But if you consider instead that Ireland was directly adjacent to the center of world maritime trade, then it seems that the inability to get food into Irish mouths in fact stemmed from their financial inability to purchase it
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This makes sense if you assume that Ireland is on a different planet, where it is impossible to bring food
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Indeed - George concluded "How could there fail to be pauperism and famine in a country where rack-rents wrested from the cultivator of the soil all the produce of his labor except just enough to maintain life in good seasons... under conditions which deprive them of hope?"
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He concludes, "The vice and misery that come of want can no more be attributed to ... Nature than can the six millions slain by the sword of Genghis Khan, Tamerlane’s pyramid of skulls, or the extermination of the ancient Britons or of the aboriginal inhabitants of the West Indies."
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In Progress and Poverty, George covers three famines his readers would have been familiar with (Ireland, China, and India) and concludes that none of them are 'natural' or caused by overpopulation, as commonly assumed at the time
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Indeed it does