Joshua King Ingalls’ essay “Henry George Examined: Should Land Be Nationalized or Individualized?” is now available in the archive. This is the classic encounter between the mutualist land reform doctrine of Ingalls and George’s single-tax scheme. This version was taken from the supplement to Liberty, October 14, 1882, and differs slightly from the version incorporated in Ingalls’ Reminiscences.
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 […]
Anarchism
Joshua King Ingalls, Grave of the Landless
Here’s another item from The Spirit of the Age, a poem by J. K. Ingalls. THE GRAVE OF THE LANDLESS On a lovely “green isle,” where the billows of oceanRoll on in their might, where the loud tempests rave,The victim lies still, for not toll or devotionCould in life rear a home or in death buy a grave.The flowers may bloom, and the harvests mature,He heeds them no more as they taunt the oppressed;He has suffered the last which the wronged may endure;He sleeps, and no landlord disturbs his last rest. Oh England, say where are the sons of the […]
Anarchism
J. K Ingalls’ Reminiscences, etc
With someplace friendly to put it, I’m starting to clean out my backlog of material. The second dump to From the Libertarian Library consists of material from the Boston Investigator by Lewis Masquerier and material from Joshua King Ingalls, including the first five chapter of his Reminiscences of an Octogenarian in the Fields of Industrial and Social Reform, with some of the annotations that I’ll be including in the in-progress print edition. UPDATE: All of Ingalls’ Reminiscences, except for the Appendix, which consists of a few later writings, is now available online. I think students of mutualism, and of radical […]