Spencer Heath Archive

Item 769

Recollected by Spencer MacCallum shortly after a conversation at which he was present between Heath and Leonard Read, of the Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, New York, in which Read was considering the question whether or not to buck the Georgists and publish Murray Rothbard’s piece on land. The conversation was cut short by a telephone interruption. As I recall it, Read initiated the meeting to ask Heath’s opinion as to whether he should publish the paper. He subsequently did, as a special publication with limited distribution.

Our forefathers depended on something NEW, and all our advance rests on that. Now are we going to stay where they left off, just to keep the ship from sinking? Or are we going to have to find something new of our own which will take us into port, so to speak — which will ADVANCE capitalism? The whole key to that something new is in the land question.