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The Political Thought of Thomas Spence - Beyond Poverty and Empire (Hardcover)
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The Political Thought of Thomas Spence - Beyond Poverty and Empire (Hardcover)
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The book is an intellectual analysis of the political ideas of
English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750-1814), who was renowned
for his "Plan", a proposal for the abolition of private
landownership and the replacement of state institutions with a
decentralized parochial organization. This system would be realized
by means of the revolution of the "swinish multitude", the poor
labouring class despised by Edmund Burke and adopted by Spence as
his privileged political interlocutor. While he has long been
considered an eccentric and anachronistic figure, the book sets out
to demonstrate that Spence was a deeply original, thoroughly modern
thinker, who translated his themes into a popular language
addressing the multitude and publicized his Plan through chapbooks,
tokens, and songs. The book is therefore a history of Spence's
political thought "from below", designed to decode the subtle
complexity of his Plan. It also shows that the Plan featured an
excoriating critique of colonialism and slavery as well as a
project of global emancipation. By virtue of its transnational
scope, the Plan made landfall in the British West Indies a few
years after Spence's death. Indeed, Spencean ideas were
intellectually implicated in the largest slave revolt in the
history of Barbados.
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