Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1915

Penciling in the margin of page 116, O.J. Smith, “The Law of Rent; a Comment on the Views of W.R.B. Willcox,” pp.115-116, Land and Freedom, Vol.39, No.4, July-August 1939

 

Original is missing.

 

 

 

 

Smith: “Henry George made it clear that rent is a social product and belongs therefore to the social body whose activities produce it.”

 

 

     Society pays rent to somebody for something in exchange. It can’t own that something and the rent it pays for it too.