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In response to Maxim A Storchevoy's post of Nov. 20. I was wondering 
whether any serious consideration has been given to the ideas of the 19th 
century American political economist, Henry George in any of the states of 
the former Soviet Union. George was a contemporary of Marx who referred to 
his approach as "the capitalist's last ditch". In his SCIENCE OF POLITICAL 
ECONOMY, 1897, pp 197-198, Henry George condemned Marx's CAPITAL and 
so-called scientific socialism as obscurantism. 
 
An interesting footnote is that the great Tolstoy a strong supporter of 
significant "land reform" via the collection of economic rent for public 
revenue and the exclusion of taxes on production is quoted as saying that 
people cannot disagree with Henry George's theory they just do not 
understand it. 
 
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