=================== HES POSTING ===================== 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. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]