Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:54:06 -0700
From: Recollection Books <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: (en) Thomas Hodgskin, anarchist?


Recent email by an Economics PhD student, quite up Hodgskin,
received, asking:

>There doesn't seem to be anything about Thomas Hodgskin on
this (The Anarchist Encyclopedia) or any other anarchist
>site.  Is he a total unknown to modern anarchists?  He was
an English anarchist economist writing between 1813 till the

>1850.s.  He is much quoted and praised by Marx but seems
forgotten in anarchist circles.

If anyone might be able to respond or elucidate?

Thanks!

--- David Brown
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm

Two quotes from Thomas Hodgskin

"It is not peace to send English troops to slaughter the
Affghans, however treacherous and cruel that people may be,
for
they never injured England. To bombard the towns of Syria
and murder its people is not peace." - 1842

"In fact, we have a police whose character has been written
in the blood of innocent men, for it sold them to death and
the infamy of the gallows. Nor do I believe any extension of
its powers would prevent one crime, or hinder one
disturbance. It is certain that every policeman must be paid
from the produce of the labourer, and because his
occupation is disgraceful, he must be well paid, and in
proportion as a police is numerous, so is the labourer
reduced to
poverty; the inequality of his condition is farther
augmented, and this causes more crimes than the best
organised police
can suppress." - 1820

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