Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2116

Penciling in the margin of Sidney J. Abelson, “Winning the Peace,” Land and Freedom Vol.4l, No.3, May-June 1941, PP 81-83).

Page 83/

“But all this can be done only by making freedom a complete and practical reality. And that is something that requires more than fine phrases. It calls for a new aboli­tion—the abolition of the freedom-destroying speculation in land.  It calls for the establishment of every man’s right to use the earth on equal terms with every other man.” (Emphasis by Heath)

Land ownership — free trade in land — establishes this right.  Governmental seizures of the produce from land make this right of no avail — make the use of land unprofitable and keeps land out of use.  Taxation, not ownership, makes idle capital, idle men and idle land.