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Excerpt from The Fundamental Fallacy of Socialism: An Exposition of the Question of Landownership, Comprising an Authentic Account of the Famous McGlynn Case
Who owns the land? To this question two answers are given: The land is the common property of all men, or the land of each coun try belongs to the whole people of that coun try as their common property. This is the answer Of Communists, Socialists and Agra rians. The rest of mankind deny this com mon landownership and maintain that the land is owned in severalty, either by individ uals or by corporations. The best known and most enthusiastic advocate of common landownership is Henry George; the most prominent defender Of private ownership in land is Pope Leo XIII.
The teachings of Henry George are chie?y comprised in his Progress and Poverty and in his Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII.; those of Leo XIII. In his Encyclical Rerum No varum, of May 15th, 1891.
Henry George considers private property in land to be the ultimate root and source of the social evils which are so keenly felt and' so bitterly deplored by all. The real cause Of the evil being ascertained, the true remedy is Obvious: we must abolish private property in land and substitute common ownership. But is the abolition Of private landownership in harmony with natural justice? It is, be cause private ownership of land is essentially and irremediably wrong and unjust.
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