Tag: land

• September 20, 2022

  The Diggers

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, As we’ve discussed, the really revolutionary part of the English Revolution got going after the end of the First Civil War, leading to things like the army mutiny and the Leveler influenced Putney Debates. Then it picked up steam after the Second Civil War, leading to things like Pride’s Purge…
• December 10, 2021

  Jefferson: Use Debt to Steal Indian Land

  Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 27 February 1803: You will recieve herewith an answer to your letter as President of the Convention: and from the Secretary at War you recieve from time to time information & instructions as to our Indian affairs. these communications being for the public records are restrained always to particular…
• July 27, 2020

  Henry George: Progress and Poverty

  Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time. The book is a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward…
• October 14, 2019

  The Christian Communist Manifesto

  Hi, In the past, I’ve argued in that Karl Marx unfairly gets a bad reputation for simply writing down what most people already knew. Marx’s ideas on wage slavery, capital, exploitation, and private property were nothing new and are, in fact, centuries old. It’s time to read the writings of the True Levellers (a.k.a. Diggers)…
• August 20, 2019

  The FHA and Government Sponsored Racial Discrimination

  Before the creation of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) in 1934, relatively few Americans owned their homes. The FHA made home ownership possible for many Americans by introducing low down-payment, long-term fixed-interest, self-amortizing loans. In 1938, the creation of the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) provided a market for Federal Housing Authority (FHA) loans,…
• October 24, 2018

  The Founding Fathers vs. the “Dangerous Influence of Those Multitudes Without Property”

  Hi. Following up on my article The True Purpose of the US Senate The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 are full of interesting information. Let’s read some of the commentary on the discussion concerning Article 4: The legislative Power of the United States shall be vested in two (Branches a Senate and a House…
• July 30, 2018

  Justice Scalia on the Historical Reasons for an Armed Militia

  On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed by a vote of 5 to 4 the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Heller v. District of Columbia. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second…
• March 5, 2018

  John Locke Justifies the Theft of Land from Native Americans

  Let’s talk John Locke. On 16 January 1811, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Benjamin Rush stating: The room being hung around with a collection of the portraits of remarkable men, among them were those of Bacon, Newton & Locke. Hamilton asked me who they were. I told him they were my trinity of the…
• May 8, 2013

  Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2010

  An old man in Gaza held a placard that reads: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.” [1] Notes: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-war-between-israel-and-hamas-has-its-roots-in-britains-shameful-betrayal-of-the-palestinians-8327052.html…