“Once again is the marxistic goal to be achieved by force, on the road of law. The nature of people is directed against this goal, arguing it.”
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Silvio Gesell
Johann Silvio Gesell was a German-Argentine economist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. He was the founder of Freiwirtschaft, an economic model for market socialism. In 1900, he founded the magazine Money and Land Reform, but it soon closed for financial reasons. During his time in Oranienburg, Gesell started the magazine Der Physiokrat together with George Heinrich Blumenthal. In 1914, it close…
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Born 17 March 1862 · Died 11 March 1930 · Q22755
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1930· 1 entry
Died 1930-03-11.
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1927· 1 entry
Lived in Eden again until he died from pneumonia on 11 March 1930
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1921· 1 entry
Denkschrift für die Gewerkschaften zum Gebrauch bei ihren Aktionen in der Frage der Währung, der Valuta und der Reparationen
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1916· 1 entry
Published his most famous work, The Natural Economic Order
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1911· 1 entry
Wrote: "In a free-transactional economy, money must become equal to all other commodities from which it differs in essence today, and yet become a general means of exchange
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1909· 1 entry
George Blumenthal established with the Association for Physiocratic Politics (German: Verein für Physiokratische Politik) the first platform for the expansion of Silvio Gesell's teachings
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1900· 1 entry
Founded the magazine Money and Land Reform (German: Die Geld- und Bodenreform), but it soon closed for financial reasons
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1891· 1 entry
Gesell released his first theoretical writing on currency: The Reformation of the Monetary System as a Bridge to a Social State (German: Die Reformation des Münzwesens als Brücke zum sozialen Staat)
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1887· 1 entry
Gesell relocated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he became self-employed and opened a franchise of his brother's business in Berlin
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-03-17.
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