Pigs' Meat : Selected Writings (New ed)

In the emergence of British radicalism and socialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the works of Spence are an indispensable element.

He produced a comprehensive argument for political and social revolution based on what he liked to call the 'real' rights of man.

Decentralization, common ownership, participation, and mutuality were central features of his ideas.

He is referred to as Britain's 'first modern socialist'.