Land Value Quotes
Earlier, treaties had been negotiated whereby whites purchased certain Indian lands. Tecumseh and others had objected not only to the concept of land sale, but to those who had sold the lands {612650}.
His expedition to Kentucky was illegal as it was against British law to expand to the West. Soon, hundreds of thousands of Americans would follow Boone and his men.
Paine, one of America’s founding fathers and the man most responsible for influencing Americans to revolt, is generally not given much attention in modern times. One of the main reasons was that his philosophy regarding land and land ownership is today considered socialist if not communist. Paine’s other views are mostly Apple pie American, but this is shocking to many Americans.
“those lands” referred to large tracts of public land that was unoccupied.
Note that although the industrial revolution was beginning, the value of factories, inventory, machines, and raw materials were not yet recognized by some of the leading intellectuals of America. The perspective was totally agricultural.
Karl Marx had argued that all profit and income from capital is exploitation. Aftalion rebutted Marks as this quotation illustrates.
