Summary
American land-reform thinker whose observation that slavery and class division were caused by land monopoly, remedied by a single tax on land profit, was, in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, an enormous influence on Franz Oppenheimer’s singling out of land enclosure and his settlement-cooperative solution (PDF p.125).
Details
- George presented his lecture on the humanity of the Mosaic laws first in 1878 before the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of San Francisco under the title “Moses – Apostle of Freedom”; Davis Trietsch translated it into German as Moses der Gesetzgeber (1920) (PDF p.125).
- Oppenheimer published two articles on George as his relationship with Trietsch began: a 1901 book review, “Dühring und Henry George”, and “Henry George und sein Werk” in the Neue Freie Presse in August 1902 (PDF p.124-125).
- Oppenheimer was introduced to George’s thought through Hermann Krecke, leader of the Berliner Freiland group, with whom he drafted the statutes of the Eden fruit growing cooperative (1893) (PDF p.125).
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Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Davis Trietsch, Inner colonization