Thomas Hodgskin
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| Born | 12 December 1787 |
| Died | 21 August 1869 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | English |
| Citizenship | British |
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| Field | Political economy |
| Influences | John Locke, Jean-Baptiste Say, Adam Smith |
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Thomas Hodgskin (12 December 1787 – 21 August 1869) was an English
His views differ from some of the views later assigned to the word ‘socialism’. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term socialist included any opponent of capitalism.[1][2][3]
Biography
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Hodgskin's father. who worked at the British Admiralty dock stores, enrolled him in the navy at the age of 12. Coming into conflict with the naval discipline of the time, Hodgskin was retired by the Navy at the age of 25. Publication of his Essay on Naval Discipline brought Hodgskin to the attention of radicals such as Francis Place. In 1815 Hodgskin travelled in France and Germany, experiences which he later documented in his Travels in the North of Germany.[4]
Entering the
In 1823, Hodgskin joined forces with
Despite his high profile in the agitated revolutionary times of the 1820s, he retreated into the realm of
Legacy
Hodgskin was a pioneer of
References
- ^ "L'Angleterre a-t-elle l'heureux privilège de n'avoir ni Agioteurs, ni Banquiers, ni Faiseurs de services, ni Capitalistes ?". In Clavier, Étienne (1788). De la foi publique envers les créanciers de l'état : lettres à M. Linguet sur le n° CXVI de ses annales (in French). p. 19.
- ^ Braudel, Fernand (1979). The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century. Harper and Row.
- ISBN 978-0226168005.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37556. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-1349078455.
- JSTOR 40402242.
- ISBN 978-9004356894.
- ISBN 978-8171567355.
Further reading
- OCLC 4064765.
- Sallis, Edward (1971). The Social and Political Thought of Thomas Hodgskin 1787–1869. MA Social Studies Dissertation University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- OCLC 750831024.
- Stack, David (1998). Nature and Artifice: The Life and Thought of Thomas Hodgskin 1787–1869. Boydell & Brewer. OCLC 810749101.
External links
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). . . John Murray – via Wikisource.
- Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital