A Mutualist FAQ by Anonymous mutualists.org & mutualists.org

Author:Anonymous, mutualists.org & mutualists.org
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mutualism

The remedy was land tenure by occupancy and use alone. In the area of money reform, he did not go beyond the Warrenite practice of labor-exchange. [Martin 144-45, 149] Under Ingalls' influence, the Warrenites in the end "wholeheartedly subscribed" to the idea of land tenure based on occupancy. [Ibid. 147]

Ingalls was alarmed by the Gilded Age government largesse toward corporate robber barons. The Homestead Act had put a populist facade on the giveaway of land to speculators, and the railroads had received a large portion of land in the public domain. Ingalls favored, not new legislation, but repealing existing laws that encouraged or protected land monopoly. A gradualist approach might be adopted of grandfathering in the tenure of existing owners for the rest of their lives, and then basing all subsequent tenure on libertarian principles. [Ibid. 145-46, 151]

Ingalls was especially brilliant in drawing attention to the historical roots of existing patterns of ownership, which modern defenders of the "free market" for some reason prefer to leave decently behind a veil. As Martin characterized it,

Ingalls charged that the economists hardly made a pretense of discussing the origins of land titles, ignoring the subject because they "could give no justification to the system, for to trace any title back will yield us nothing... but forceful and fraudulent taking, even were land a proper subject for taking at all." [Social Wealth, in Ibid. 148-49]

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