But it’s still a step in the right direction

I don't necessarily disagree, as I said in my initial comment my complaint about Georgism is with it being insufficient, not me being in principle against the morality of it. I just don't see why limit ourselves to taxation of land ownership instead of the, in my opinion fairer and more all-encompassing, collective ownership of land and means of production. We can start by taxing land, sure, but why the hangup with that in particular? We could argue instead for collective ownership of all housing, all means of production, and all land, and this way the exploitation would stop altogether.

As for democracy being revisited, I actually agree but in a different way. I just don't think real democracy is possible in a two-class system where a minority class (capitalists) have the economic power, and hence media power, and hence political power. I love democracy, but I don't think we've had real democracy in the west, in fact we have very much the contrary. We saw it recently in France where the President skipped congress using emergency measure legislation in order to raise retirement age against the democratic will of the people. We saw it in Germany when Berlin had a referendum to cap rent prices and a judge invalidated it saying it was unconstitutional. We saw it in Greece when Syriza carried out a referendum to revisit the sovereign debt but couldn't do it under ECB threat of being left stranded without control over their own currency. We see it in the entire western world whenever austerity policy is applied, because almost everywhere the overwhelming majority of people are in favour of free good quality education, free good quality healthcare and good retirement pensions. I just think that we live in a bourgeois democracy, where there is a democracy for capitalists but not for workers, who actually compose the majority of the population.