Here’s a very useful resource, available from Google Books : Enclaves of Single Tax Or Economic Rent, Being a compendium of the legal documents involved, together with a historical description, by Charles White Huntington. Covering the “single tax colonies” of Fairhope, Arden, Tahanto, Halidon, Free Acres, and Saint Jordi, this is a collection of the communities charters and reports of the status of each. There appear to have been 10 volumes released annually between 1921 and 1930. Some of you may remember these volumes being mentioned on Kevin Carson’s Mutualist Blog back in June, 2005.
From the Archives
“a toast to dear old Bolton Hall”
[ezcol_2third] Bolton Hall, single tax anarchist – the song! The great things you find online! Kevin Carson’s recent post on Georgism led me back to the work of Bolton Hall. I read through his collection of children’s stories, “Monkey Shines,” over coffee yesterday and read parts of “The Game of Life” last night. It’s hard to overstate what a fine writer and sane thinker Hall was. But here’s a taste: The Social Poultice Society The subject for the evening was, “How to Abolish War.” The President suggested, that, as a matter of course, we should prohibit the use of dum-dum […]
Working Translations
Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887)
It’s always fun to be able to add a new name to the list of historical mutualists, and particularly so when the new name comes with articulate writings. Frédéric Tufferd (or Teufferd) is one of those names I have encountered in the lists of French political exiles in the U. S., and as one of the editors of the Bulletin de l’Union républicaine de langue française and Le Socialiste (organs of the French internationalists in the the U. S.), and an associate of Claude Pelletier, Jules Leroux, etc. I hadn’t had a chance to read any of his work until […]
From the Archives
William Lloyd Garrison, “Why I Am a Single-Taxer” (1890)
[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] WHY I AM A SINGLE-TAXER. BY WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. I am an advocate of the Single-tax because it stands for a fundamental reform based on a moral principle. The name is intended to indicate a practical method of reaching and curing much of the misery that afflicts society. It seems shameful that in a world of plenty, with more than enough for all to live upon in comfort, there should exist, side by side, congested wealth and abject poverty, evidently arising from a derangement of forces. What is the primal cause? Is it a decree […]
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Yes,
I’ve been on the lookout for the Huntington set for a good number of years, but have only been able to find a couple through booksellers. I do hope that Google Books actually makes the entire ten volumes available as this is an invaluable sourcebook on the single tax enclaves. These intentional communities were an important adjunct to the single tax strategies Many of the nonpolitical single taxers (such as Spencer Heath) and anarchists were actively involved in them.
They were built on the best strengths of the single taxers and were largely an expression of the libertarian strands in the movement.
Just a thought.
Just Ken
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