Do you know this man?

This is the most famous and influential thinker ever to be erased from history.

WHY?

Because he proved how easy it is to make the world
a fair and better place for everyone.

He said:
"We cannot safely leave politics to politicians or political economy to college professors.
The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act."

No idea? Very few people living today have even heard his name, let alone his ideas.
Click each globe for a clue.



Home Again


This man...

Published in 1879 "Progress and Poverty" the best selling work on Political Economy of all time. Translated within ten years into over thirty languages, it has remained in print almost till the present day

. This one book sold millions of copies world-wide and inspired political movements in every part of the developed world. .His ideas formed the basis of libertarian philosophy for half a century, yet he is rarely mentioned even in a footnote in any work of history or economics available today. An oversight equal in magnitude to a European history without Napoleon, or a roll of U.S. Presidents without Kennedy. The only motive for this is simple - if the truth cannot be defeated, it must be hidden

More Clues

This man's...

Philosophy, or rather the attempt to promote it, was the inspiration behind the invention of the original version of MONOPOLY, the famous board game. Although first released in 1933, the patents, and the game itself credited joint ownership with both Darrow, the man generally credited with inventing the game, and Elizabeth Magie, a radical supporter of the guy in the picture, who had patented a remarkably similar game some thirty years earlier. The story of Monopoly

More Clues

This man...

Was a contemporary of Karl Marx, was world-famous in his day whilst few people had heard of Marx until after the Russian Revolution in 1917 When he died in New York in 1897, more than half a million people lined the streets to watch his funeral procession pass and pay their last respects to a great man.

.For nearly thirty years he toured the globe inspiring hundreds of groups across virtually every continent to set up and promote his ideas, a few of these groups still exist today.

Some of these organisations were funded by membership contributions, others by enlightened industrialists, such as Joseph Fels, and include the John C. Lincoln Foundation, which was endowed with several million dollars to promote his ideas, but now claims (falsely) that they have no relevance to modern society, and use their considerable income to rubbish any attempt to reopen the debate surrounding land, poverty, unemployment and privilege so clearly expounded by the man whose ideals they were founded to promote.

More Clues

This man...

Inspired many well-known and prominent people with his ideals and proposals, and was supported by them both in print and in public (click a name to see what these people said), people such as:
More Clues

This man's...

Proposals for a just system of public revenue, replacing all taxation are still to be found (in extremely watered down versions) in use in several countries, including Denmark, Australia, Taiwan and New Zealand, also several U.S cities (notably in Pennsylvania) and Fairhope, Baldwin County Alabama, an intentional community founded 100 years ago to be a working example of H.G.'s principles, still going strong.

California is widely known as an immensely productive agricultural area - but the story of how the original desert was transformed into its current fertile condition is an object lesson in the application of the proposals put forward by this man.

More Clues

This man...

Twice stood as Mayor of New York, first in 1885, where he came second in a rigged election (according to most contemporary observers, he had actually won the vote) defeating Theodore Roosevelt, the future president in the process. In 1897 though frail, he was asked to run again, which he did against Doctors advice, but died of a stroke five days before the ballot, which he also stood to win.

More Clues

This man's...

Ideas formed the main political agenda in the British elections leading up to the First World War, reluctantly implemented by Lloyd George's government in 1917, only to be stopped from becoming law by the House of Lords, who mounted a "backwoodsman campaign" to pack the House with aged peers to block the passing of an act which would only have implemented his reforms at a mere 2% of their full force.

For this act of obstruction the House of Commons stripped the Lords of their powers to ever again block parliamentary Finance Bills. This act remains in force to this day

More Clues




Go to the RainForest GeoCities
Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

1