It's not really fair to say that georgism won't work if it has never been tried. With socialism, detractors can at least point towards the USSR, East Germany, and Venezuela. With georgism, there are no examples and therefore, no failures.
It's not really fair to say that georgism won't work if it has never been tried. With socialism, detractors can at least point towards the USSR, East Germany, and Venezuela. With georgism, there are no examples and therefore, no failures.
To be fair it wasn’t really the aims of Georgism I was criticising as much as how politicians and industrialists held it up as a solution just around the corner for along time, as some of them do with UBI.
I’m sure if people implemented something totally different from Georgism but called it Georgism in their criticisms, then their criticisms would be just as invalid about Georgism as those who do the same with Socialism, such as when detractors mistake Leninism for it.
However, as someone who opposes Capitalism I think that even though Georgism might alleviate a major property issue related to it, but still leave many fundamental problems I have with Capitalism.
It's not really fair to say that georgism won't work if it has never been tried. With socialism, detractors can at least point towards the USSR, East Germany, and Venezuela. With georgism, there are no examples and therefore, no failures.
To be fair it wasn’t really the aims of Georgism I was criticising as much as how politicians and industrialists held it up as a solution just around the corner for along time, as some of them do with UBI.
I’m sure if people implemented something totally different from Georgism but called it Georgism in their criticisms, then their criticisms would be just as invalid about Georgism as those who do the same with Socialism, such as when detractors mistake Leninism for it.
However, as someone who opposes Capitalism I think that even though Georgism might alleviate a major property issue related to it, but still leave many fundamental problems I have with Capitalism.