Auberon Herbert

1838 - 1906

Titles on this disk:

• author: A Plea for Liberty: An Argument against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (LF ed.)
• author: The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays (LF ed.)
• author: Taxation and Anarchism: A Discussion between the Hon. Auberon Herbert and J.H. Levy

Quotations:

• (18 October, 2010) Auberon Herbert on compulsory taxation as the “citadel” of state power (1885)
• (31 January, 2005) Auberon Herbert discusses the “essence of government” when the veneer of elections are stripped away (1894)

About this person:

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.”