Thomas Spence

British pamphleteer
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Born:
June 21, 1750, Newcastle, Northumberland, now in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear
Died:
Sept. 8, 1814, London (aged 64)

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Thomas Spence (born June 21, 1750, Newcastle, Northumberland, now in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear—died Sept. 8, 1814, London) was a British pamphleteer known for his early advocacy of the socialization of land. Spence came of Scottish working class origins. At 25 he presented to the Newcastle Philosophical Society his paper The Real Rights of Man, advocating that land be owned by democratically organized local corporations that would rent it out at moderate rates and distribute the net proceeds to the inhabitants. There would be no need for taxes. Spence maintained that men in their natural state held ...(100 of 178 words)