# Thomas Hodgskin Versus Herbert Spencer, Part 3

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/thomas-hodgskin-versus-herbert-spencer-part-3>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** April 27, 2016

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Smith compares the positions of Hodgskin and Smith on the history of landownership, and their opposition to the political power of the landed aristocracy.

[Originally published in essay form on August 27, 2013.](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/excursions/thomas-hodgskin-versus-herbert-spencer-part-3)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._