Frases de Thomas Hodgskin

Thomas Hodgskin fue un oficial de la marina y escritor socialista inglés. Su economía política era crítica del «capitalismo» de su época , partidaria del libre comercio internacional y de los primeros sindicato. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. diciembre 1787 – 21. agosto 1869
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Thomas Hodgskin: Frases en inglés

“Those who make laws, appropriate wealth in order to secure power.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Fuente: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 49

“What is the law?—Who are the law makers?”

Thomas Hodgskin

The law is a great scheme of rules intended to preserve the power of government, secure the wealth of the landowner, the priest, and the capitalist, but never to secure his produce to the labourer.—The law-maker is never a labourer, and has no natural right to any wealth.—He takes no notice of the natural right of property.—Manifold miseries which result from his appropriating the produce of labour, and from the legal right of property being in opposition to the natural.

p. 44
The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)

“Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Fuente: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 14

“Governments have meddled incessantly with money, which in our time has been the fruitful parent of intricate discussions and painful changes.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Fuente: Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827), p. 179

“Domestic slavery, combined with systems of foreign conquest and usurpation, ruined the empires of antiquity.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Fuente: Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827), p. 30

“The evils of society cannot be remedied by acts of parliament.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Fuente: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 98, Vol. 2

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