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Spencer, Hodgskin, and Land Rights

Spencer, Hodgskin, and Land Rights

May 18

By Roderick

As “everyone knows,” Herbert Spencer was a reactionary defender of capitalism and an opponent of socialism, while Thomas Hodgskin was a proto-Marxian defender of socialism and an opponent of capitalism; so what should one expect from Hodgskin’s review (now online) of Spencer’s Social Statics? The right answer, it turns out, is almost total agreement: “there [...]

Tagged Conflation Debate, Ethics, Free the Earth, Lapsus Linguae, Left and Right, Left-Libertarian, Molinari/C4SS, Online Texts, Spencer | 10 Responses

Cordial and Sanguine, Part 28: Groundpounders at War

Apr 26

By Roderick

This land is your land
 this land is my land
 looks like one of us
 has a fake deed to this land — Dave Barry (?) This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it … ‘This Land.’ — Wash In addition to [...]

Tagged Ethics, Left-Libertarian, Personal, Spencer | Leave a response

Cordial and Sanguine, Part 26: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Continued Some More

Apr 23

By Roderick

My latest contribution to the symposium is finally up, as is a “best of the blogs” roundup.

Tagged Antiquity, Ethics, Left-Libertarian, Online Texts, Rand, Spencer | 7 Responses

Cordial and Sanguine, Part 22: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Continued

Apr 04

By Roderick

Greetings from Seattle! My entry in the aforementioned Cato Unbound symposium is now up. It’s titled “In Praise of Bleeding Heart Absolutism.”

Tagged Anarchy, Antiquity, Antiracism, Conflation Debate, Ethics, Feminism, Industriels, Labortarian, Left and Right, Left-Libertarian, Molinari/C4SS, Online Texts, Personal, Rand, Spencer | Leave a response

Part of an Original Crowd

Aug 26

By Roderick

Sheldon has a nice post on why proper individualism is not atomistic – wherein he cites Aristotle, Spencer, and … me! In related news, I’ve argued elsewhere that it is the least atomistic forms of individualism that have the strongest claim to be called radical individualism.

Tagged Antiquity, Left-Libertarian, Online Texts, Personal, Spencer | 5 Responses

Herbert Spencer’s Hat Trick

Jun 19

By Roderick

A correspondent writes: Saints be praised! Herbert Spencer has received a surprisingly positive and balanced assessment in a ‘popular’ source. 2012 must be the end of time! The article is actually fairly positive (albeit superficial) about Spencer’s ideas, but makes Spencer the person sound a bit of a jerk. But that’s fair, because he was.

Tagged Anarchy, Left-Libertarian, Online Texts, Science Fact, Spencer | 6 Responses

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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.

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