Georgismball, not to be confused with Geolibertarianismball, is an economically center-right, generally culturally center-left ideology that is typically placed in the lower middle of the political compass.
He believes that there should only be one tax, being the land value tax. He views property rights as only extending to the properties of labor and capital, and since land is neither, it's free realestate. Though his main bit is only having one tax, he often promotes pollution taxes, as a treat.
Overall, his ideology is centered around land & its distribution and his beliefs are often summed up with the phrase (usually in all caps) "landlords don't have rights", though this is somewhat of an exaggeration.
While his views on land rights and natural resource ownership are very collectivist, to combat unjust inequality, most of his other views are relatively individualistic, focusing on creating efficiency in the economy to create more land value to tax.
His father Physiocracy was quite old and absent when he was born, so he was mostly brought up by his uncle Classical Liberalism.
Eventually he became the father of Geo-Anarchism and Geolibertarianism with his cousins Anarchism and Libertarianism.
Despite this, of all his cousins, he's generally on best terms with Liberalism; but he also tries to keep friendly with Capitalism and Socialism even though they seldom leave room for his views, especially when they're in the same room together...
How To Draw
- Fill a ball with this shade of green.
- Cut in half and fill top/left half with gold.
- Draw the eyes.
- (Optional) Either
- Draw, in black, a square seperated in 4 at a 45 degree angle.
- Add cat ears and three grey whiskers on each side.
Relationships
Friends
- Geolibertarianismball - Ah yes, my more uncompromising son; not so fond of our statist left-wing relatives.
- Geo-Anarchismball - Hates the state even more than his brother. Wait, son, how are you going to tax the land without a state? Nevermind, it's the intention that counts.
- Classical Liberalismball - Taught me Classical Economics and usually supports my views on landlords.
- Liberalismball - He used to promote my ideas; unfortunately only when it suited him.
- Environmentalismball - Polluting and exploiting our natural resources lowers the value of the land, and thus reduces future tax revenue!
- Social Democracyball - I really think she could be warming up to the idea of a land value tax...
- Democratic Socialismball - Probably already wants to make land common property.
- Neoliberalismball - Sometimes supports my ideas, in spite of his distorted Neoclassical understanding.
- Libertarianball - Thinks LVT is the least bad tax.
- Mutualismball - Not sure I understand her, but at least she thinks land shouldn't be a commodity.
Frenemies
- Maoismball -
Shares opinion on Landlords...It's complicated. - Marxismball - Hates landlords, but doesn't distinguish between land and capital. Also called me Capitalismball's last ditch.
- Anarcho-Syndicalismball - Extremist, but I like the cat symbol.
- Agrarianismball - Old granny (wrongly) thinks farmland has high land value, and thus generally opposes LVT.
Enemies
- Anarcho-Capitalismball - Doesn't understand anything about LVT. Thinks owning and speculating in land is a vital productive service.
- Marxism-Leninismball - Leave my labor and capital alone!
- Conservatismball - Defender of rich landed interest.
- Reactionaryball - Even worse than Conservatismball.
Mortal Enemies
- Hoppeanismball - Literally everything I hate and more.
Further Info
Books
Books from Henry George
- Progress and Poverty
- The Land Question: What it involves and how alone it can be settled
- Our Land and Land Policy, National and State
- The Crime of Poverty
- (Less Related) Protectionism or Free Trade?
Books from other authors
Wikipedia
- Georgism
- Geolibertarianism
- Land Value Tax
- Progress and Poverty
- Henry George
- Unearned Income
- Value Capture
- Citizen's dividend
- Lockean Proviso
- Single Tax
Videos
Short (less than 10 minutes)
- Georgism 101 by BritMonkey
- What is Georgism? by the Political Sextant
- Georgism's One Tax Rule by RT
- How Georgism can fix the broken tax system by Nikolaj and Simon Talks
Long (More than 10 minutes)
- Taxing Question of Land by TaxingQofLand
- Understanding Economics: 10 - Henry George's Remedy by Henry George School of Social Science
- Real Estate 4 Ransom by Prosper Australia
Online Communities
- r/Georgism
- r/GeorgeDidNothingWrong
- r/LandValueTax
- r/GeoLibertarianism
- r/GeoLibertarianism
- r/Geoanarchism
- r/NewPhysiocrats
- Unofficial Georgism Discord