I agree and disagree. The problem is political and class-based but underlying the political are the factors of economic relations as any good Marxian knows. The underlying factor relations include not just labour and capital but also land, as most good Marxians don't want to know because it is outside the familiar discourse upon which their careers have been built. We of this third 'inclusive of land' approach, have dismally failed to persuade people by extolling the benefits of 'land value tax' and 'community land trusts' representing the fiscal and legal mechanisms of this old/novel economic framing. So we are now going large with 'Earth Rights'. Keep your abstract legalised 'Right to Housing', we demand the Real Thing and the whole kaboodle - the Earth itself and everything in on and above it. This knowledge was known, forgotten, suppressed repeatedly since the time of the Physiocrats. But truth will eventually out when the story fits the time. PS the RA Deirdre Kelly Colloquium 2022 videos are still available on the Ranelagh Arts website and Colloquium 2023 videos will be up soon. Check out www.ranelagharts.ie.
I agree and disagree. The problem is political and class-based but underlying the political are the factors of economic relations as any good Marxian knows. The underlying factor relations include not just labour and capital but also land, as most good Marxians don't want to know because it is outside the familiar discourse upon which their careers have been built. We of this third 'inclusive of land' approach, have dismally failed to persuade people by extolling the benefits of 'land value tax' and 'community land trusts' representing the fiscal and legal mechanisms of this old/novel economic framing. So we are now going large with 'Earth Rights'. Keep your abstract legalised 'Right to Housing', we demand the Real Thing and the whole kaboodle - the Earth itself and everything in on and above it. This knowledge was known, forgotten, suppressed repeatedly since the time of the Physiocrats. But truth will eventually out when the story fits the time. PS the RA Deirdre Kelly Colloquium 2022 videos are still available on the Ranelagh Arts website and Colloquium 2023 videos will be up soon. Check out www.ranelagharts.ie.