Reality with Bruce de Torres

78. Alanna Hartzok: The Earth Belongs to Everyone

On Rumble and the usual audio platforms

Alanna Hartzok discusses her book, THE EARTH BELONGS TO EVERYONE (free pdf at www.theiu.org, under Resources, Books), land value taxation, the prosperity it causes, and Henry George, land value’s great 19th Century American exponent. (See the Henry George School of Social Science, www.hgsss.org.)

Alanna is the Administrative Director (and a United Nations NGO Representative) for the International Union for Land Value Taxation (www.theiu.org), where she helps administer land value tax implementation projects on five continents. She posts at www.AlannaHartzok.Substack.com. And she and I participate in TrineDay Publishing’s monthly Valediction Roundtables (www.Valediction.net), which explore JFK’s vision of peace and Henry George’s economics (among other blessings).

Topics discussed:

Alanna found land value taxation after asking big questions, such as what’s the cause of poverty, war, homelessness, and other social problems? “The earth belongs to everyone” is the ancient idea that makes life beautiful (until “might makes right” poisons and cripples us).

Henry George was a 19th Century American who wrote “PROGRESS AND POVERTY: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth … the Remedy.” He spelled out how wealth inequality grows in societies (like ours) that are based on private profiteering in land. In history he found a wisdom that knew that you cannot treat land like a market commodity and have a fair society.

He predicted that if we did not address “the land problem,” the United States would become grossly unequal in terms of its wealth and power and democracy would break down (welcome to today), because democratic institutions must be founded on the democratic human right to our planet’s land and natural resources as a birthright. (Hence the title of Alanna’s book, THE EARTH BELONGS TO EVERYONE.)

His book, PROGRESS AND POVERTY, sold like wildfire. (Only the Bible sold better.) It launched an important movement quickly. He became famous as a speaker (as well known as Mark Twain), not only in the United States but also in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland.

Resources:

THE EARTH BELONGS TO EVERYONE

Books - TheIU.org

AlannaHartzok.Substack.com

(100) Aradhana Airwaves | Alanna Hartzok | Substack

TheIU.org - The International Union for Land Value Taxation

LAND RIGHTS AND LAND VALUE CAPTURE

Course - TheIU.org

On YouTube:

Class and Race Viewed through a Land Lens

The Henry George School of Social Science

Home - hgsss.org