Re: Winston Churchill: Land Price as a Cause of Poverty

From: König Prüß, GfbAEV (saurkraut_at_weinerschnitzle.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:58:29 GMT

"Quirk" wrote:

>LAND PRICE AS A CAUSE OF POVERTY
>
>Winston Churchill's Speech in the House of Commons, 4 May 1909,
> in response to Mr AJ Balfour, Leader of the Opposition
>
>The immemorial custom of nearly every modern State, the mature
>conclusions of many of the greatest thinkers, have placed the tenure,
>transfer, and obligations of land in a wholly different category from
>other classes of property. The mere obvious physical distinction
>between land, which is a vital necessity of every human being and which
>at the same time is strictly limited in extent, and other property is
>in itself sufficient to justify a clear differentiation in its
>treatment, and in the view taken by the State of the conditions which
>should govern the tenure of land from that which should regulate
>traffic in other forms of property.

 Oh, yeah! Land tenure. Land tenure is a big deal in Guatemala,
where I think a dozen families own 80% of the land.

 There are land tenure projects and a land tenure institute.

 So, what are the big differences between Venture Communism
and Economic Democracy?
http://www.ied.info/
http://www.ied.info/books/ed/