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- Political Movement
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- Georgist Movement
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Based on the theory of American land reformer, Henry George, single tax movements proposed the abolition of all taxation save that on the unimproved value of land.
While George was not a socialist, in Australia and South Australia in particular where the movement was strongest, single tax policies were generally seen as socialist or as paving the way to socialism.
Single tax movements were strongest in the late nineteenth century, but a remnant remain active.
See Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
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Books
- Johnston, Alexander W., The new utopia, or progress and prosperity: an exposure of the evils produced by unwise legislation and a suggestion of the means whereby they may be remedied, Turner and Henderson [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1890. [
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| Details... ] - Rayment, A.W., The rights of labor; and how to obtain them, Printed for the proprietor and publishe[r], H.S.Taylor, by Hutchison, Craker and Smith, Adelaide, 1891, 31 pp. [ | |
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Newspapers
- Singer, Ignatius (ed.), Our Commonwealth, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, 8 pp. [ | | Details... ]
Newspaper Articles
- 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 21 September 1887, p. 210. [ | | Details... ]
- 'Our Programme', The Pioneer (Adelaide), 2 May 1891, p. 1. [ | | | | Details... ]
- 'The Late Hugh Gilmore', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 14 November 1891, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]
- 'The Shadow of Sorrow', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 2 November 1891, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]
- 'Editorial', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 24 December 1892, p. 1. [ | | | | Details... ]
- 'Socialism that is not radical', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 16 April 1892, p. 1. [ | | | | Details... ]
- 'Editorial', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 1, 1 May 1893. [ | | Details... ]
- 'Editorial', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 3, 1 July. [ | | Details... ]
- 'One man, one vote', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 6, 1 October 1893. [ | | Details... ]
- 'The industrial outcome of socialism', Beacon (Melbourne), 1894. [ | | Details... ]
- 'Editorial', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 2, 1 June 1893. [ | | Details... ]
- 'The depotism of socialism', Beacon (Melbourne), no. 11, 1 March 1894. [ | | Details... ]
- H. S. T., 'Parliamentary Echoes. A Glimpse into South Australian History.', The Pioneer (Adelaide), 22 August 1891, p. 1. [ | | | | Details... ]
- Jephcott, Sydney, 'A hymn for the dispossossed', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 6, 1 October 1893. [ | | Details... ]
- Jones, Ernest Charles, 'Song of the factory slave', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 11, 1 March 1894. [ | | Details... ]
- Jones, Ernest Charles, 'Song of the lower classes', Beacon (Melbourne), 1 January 1894. [ | | Details... ]
- Mayer, Henry, 'Life on the Fringe', Observer, 23 January 1960. [ | | Details... ]
- Radical, 'A Plea for Unity', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 1 October 1892, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]
Pamphlets
- Craigie, E.J., The Wakefield plan, Australian history leaflet. The Everade Letters. Supplement to Land and Wages.. [ | | Details... ]
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