The Story of Utopias · Character

Thomas Spence

English radical and land reformer who proposed a utopian commonwealth.

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Also known as Spence

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Proposed a system of land nationalization and communal ownership as the basis for a just society.

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Thomas Spence first appears in 0003 the story of utopias.

In How some utopians have thought that a good community rested at bottom on the right division and use of land; and what sort of communities these land-animals projected.: Proposed a system of land nationalization and communal ownership as the basis for a just society.

Later, in I: Spensonia is mentioned as a utopia founded on common possession of land.

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How some utopians have thought that a good community rested at bottom on the right division and use of land; and what sort of communities these land-animals projected.
Proposed a system of land nationalization and communal ownership as the basis for a just society.
I
Spensonia is mentioned as a utopia founded on common possession of land.
II
Author of Spensonia utopia; proposed communal land ownership and parish-based governance.
V
Spence is mentioned alongside Fourier as an exception to the trend of mechanical utopias.
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Included as a figure given space in the bibliography to restore his place.

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