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First published 1889

Individualism: A System of Politics

by Wordsworth Donisthorpe

London: Macmillan and Co., 1889; Online Library of Liberty edition266 pages

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Author
Wordsworth Donisthorpe
First published
1889
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
266
Publisher
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

Wordsworth Donisthorpe's 1889 theory of politics from the individualist side, working in the tradition of Herbert Spencer and Auberon Herbert. He builds a system of law and government on individual liberty and attacks the growth of socialism, which he treats as the greatest threat to social progress.

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16 chapters · 160,515 words · free to read here

  1. PREFACE
  2. CHAPTER I: the state: its growth and evolution
  3. CHAPTER II: the structuee of the state
  4. CHAPTER III: the functions of the state
  5. CHAPTER IV: what is property?
  6. CHAPTER V: what is capital?
  7. CHAPTER VI: the labour question
  8. CHAPTER VII: labour capitalisation
  9. CHAPTER VIII: a word for anarchy1
  10. CHAPTER IX: the basis of individualism
  11. CHAPTER X: land-law reformers
  12. CHAPTER XI: an analysis of socialism
  13. CHAPTER XII: absolutism in politics
  14. About Liberty Fund
  15. The Online Library of Liberty
  16. Copyright Information

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