Henry George fell between libertarian and socialist worlds ideologically—with strong egalitarian/redistribution commitments alongside free trade and anti-tax libertarian impulses—a contradiction that became much more difficult in the 20th century.
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“I think you can start to see from the description a little bit of the seeds of where it went wrong for Georgism in the sense that he's got these libertarian ideals, he's got these strong ideas about inequality and egalitarianism and redistribution.”
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