For reasons that will be noted later when we will learn about the law of land rent, collecting taxes equal to land rents in full from land owners-users, will prevent
(1) The hoarding of unused land by individuals and private corporations, and
(2) Fascism.

To Prevent Communism

But, what will prevent the Communism of a governmental hoarding of land taken from the people by tax sales, after putting a heavy tax on land values?

The government hoarding of land must be prevented by a Constitutional Amendment preventing the government from owning more land than it can use, as we will see later.

Hoarding of land by the government must also be prevented if we would avoid Communism, because Communism, in the name of social security, means the virtual enslavement of the individual to the State and the executive head thereof.

Communism means the virtual enslavement of the individual to a State that has not had its functions properly differentiated into primary and secondary (subordinate) functions, coincident with a Constitutional rule of law, as we will note later.

Communism means that, through the State ownership of land, a part of the labor products of all citizens will be confiscated in the form of arbitrarily assessed taxes, thereby enslaving the individual to the State.

If the State would avoid enslaving its citizens, it must earn its income by giving service to the People, just like any public service corporation.

Later on, we will see that the greatest service that the State can give to the People and to the individuals thereof, is the service of preventing land hoarding and money hoarding, either by itself or by privileged individuals. We well see how the State can do this and earn pay from individuals for doing it, and thus justify its existence.

Why must the hoarding of land by the State be prevented ?

(1) Because the first of the ten articles of the Communist Manifesto declares that there must be an �abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.�

(2) Because Earl Browder refers to Communism and Socialism as being State Capitalism, in �Keynes, Foster & Marx ; State Capitalism and Progress�, in1950. He says, �State Capitalism, in substance if not in formal aspects, has progressed farther in America than in Great Britain under the labor Government.�

(3) Because there is a clear intimation in the fourth, fifth, eighth and ninth articles of the Communist Manifesto, that, being thus a State Capitalism, the head of the State will, virtually and literally, enslave men by assigning them the land that they will use and work on. Being literally assigned the land they will use, the implication is, and will be that the individuals assigned to this land had better produce a certain quota, or else !

(4) Because all ten articles of the Communist Manifesto obviously envision

(A) The centralization of government and
(B) Government (People�s?) ownership of

(a) Land and
(b) Money and
(c) Industry and

(C) The weakening of the power and sovereignty of individuals, through the enactment of

(a) A graduated income tax and
(b) The abolition of all rights of inheritance, for instance.

(5) Because the second, third and fifth articles of this same Communist Manifesto demand, respectively,

(A) �A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
(B) �Abolition of all right of inheritance.
(C) �Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.�

To Prevent Fascism

Fascism means the ownership of land and money and industry by one or a few persons (money owners). These few money owners also will control the government by way of a national debt to them. This ever-increasing debt is leading us to an ultimate national bankruptcy and the appointment of a receiver in bankruptcy. Then these money owners will be government.

A graduate income tax and no inheritance rights means that there will be an arbitrary equalization of incomes, and a destruction of the wealth and power of the individual. Later, when we will learn more about Fascism, we will see that the above proposals found in the Communist Manifesto will make Fascism impossible. That is, it will prevent the Fascist power from developing. It will insure the development of Communism or State Capitalism.

Why must the hoarding of land by the state be prevented ?

From The Twenty-year Revolution by Chesly Manly, 1954

In his pamphlet, Keynes, Foster and Marx, Earl Browder lists 22 policies and practices of the federal government which �concentrate in the hands of the state the guiding reins of the national economy� and �express the growth of state capitalism.� All of these factors �contribute to immediate progress, as well as to the ultimate socialist revolution,� Browder declares.

Browder sets forth �the essential features of the program which has the support of the labor movement and the progressive majority of the country, and which the Socialists(Communists, Marxists), can equally support without compromising their socialist goal, but on the contrary, advancing it—the program which, therefore, can be made the basis of a fighting coalition of progressivism and socialism.� Browder�s program is substantially identical with the official policy declaration adopted by the ADA at their sixth annual convention in Washington, D. C., in June, 1953. Following is a comparison . . . [not here included, please confer the text. (WPT)]

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In a letter dated September 19, 1949, which was inserted in the record of a Senate judiciary subcommittee appointed to hold hearings on immigration legislation in 1950, former Representative O�Connor, who was chairman of the House Rules Committee and a leader of the administration during that period, said Browder was especially active at the White House during the president�s campaign in 1938 to purge Democratic senators who had fought his demand to pack the United States Supreme Court in 1937. In fact, O�Connor wrote, �Browder directed operations from the White House, from which he telephoned instructions from time to time.�

In May, 1942, Roosevelt ordered Browder released from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, where he had served one years and two months of a four years sentence for passport fraud. The President said Browder�s release would �have a tendency to promote national unity and allay any feelings which may exist in some minds that the unusually long sentence was by way of penalty imposed [on?] him because of his political views.�

Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt interested themselves in the case of Mrs. Browder, who was in this country illegally and was facing deportation to her native Russia. Finally, in 1941, an order for Mrs. Browder�s deportation was vacated and she was permitted to leave the country voluntarily and re-enter legally on a vise issued by the American consulate in Montreal. Representative Velde (R., Ill.) told the house o March 21, 1953, that this was �one of the most flagrant violations of our laws that has ever come to my notice.�

( page 45 )

Chicago : Henry Regnery, 1954.