Book Summary – Origins of Voluntaryism

by | Mar 1, 2020

Book Summary – Origins of Voluntaryism

by | Mar 1, 2020

 
 
 

Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) was an English radical individualist who was influenced by the work of Herbert Spencer. With a group of other late Victorian classical liberals he was active in such organizations as the Personal Rights and Self-Help Association and the Liberty and Property Defense League. He formulated a system of “thorough” individualism that he described as “voluntaryism.”

This is a summary of his excellent essay, The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State (1885)

Keith Knight

Keith Knight

Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast and editor of The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes.

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