TPUK 2008 Number 3 Volume 9

BOOK REVIEW: “Democracy? Not yet, perhaps never”

This challenging book is printed in typescript of adequate size for those readers whose eyesight might be declining. Part one analyses the meaning of “democracy”, but the advice in print at the head of its ‘Table of Contents’ that ‘The US, England and France are not democracies’ – gives a due.

“Spirit of Democracy or the Rights of Man maintained” a cartoon by William Dent from 1792 shows Charles James Fox, as Oliver Cromwell, wave a whip and drive the allied Kings in the direction of a sign inscribed: “To Equality or Annihilation” while an allegorical America, as “Indian Queen” with liberty cap and pole, looks on – American Philosophical Society

Paine, Spence, Chartism And ‘The Real Rights Of Man

Malcolm Chase / January 1, 2008

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2008 Number 3 Volume 9

When Spence spoke of ‘the real rights’, or ‘the whole rights’ of man, he was signalling that the profoundly radical prescriptions of Thomas Paine had to become more radical still. Republicanism, even accompanied by a fiscal regime of progressive taxation, would not alone suffice to restore humanity.

Chartist Movement, Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice

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