Henry Carey's ‘Entire Bad Joke’ and Henry George's ‘Idle Taunt’: displacement, settler colonialism and revolution in nineteenth-century America

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article follows nineteenth century debates pitting US economists Henry Carey and Henry George on the one hand, and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on the other hand. Carey and George maintained that displacement and settler colonialism could be a response to contradictions and an alternative to revolution. Marx and, later, Engels restated a revolutionary perspective.