EPISODE · Jun 27, 2025 · 1H 13M
Ep. 39: Gregory Claeys on Tom Paine's Social and Political Thought
from The Democratic Constitution Podcast · host Lucas De Hart and Luke Pickrell
Luke talks with Gregory Claeys Grandin about Tom Paine, including Paine’s ideas of natural rights and natural laws, how a new generation of radicals challenged Paine’s ideas of natural rights, how Machiavellian/neo-Roman republican theories differ from Paine’s republicanism, and why “the age of Paine has barely begun.”Greg is Professor Emeritus at the University of London and the author of several books, including Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism, Marx and Marxism, and Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought. Luke also mentions an interview with Gary Berton of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association.
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Luke talks with Gregory Claeys Grandin about Tom Paine, including Paine’s ideas of natural rights and natural laws, how a new generation of radicals challenged Paine’s ideas of natural rights, how Machiavellian/neo-Roman republican theories differ from Paine’s republicanism, and why “the age of Paine has barely begun.”Greg is Professor Emeritus at the University of London and the author of several books, including Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism, Marx and Marxism, and Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought. Luke also mentions an interview with Gary Berton of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association.
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Ep. 39: Gregory Claeys on Tom Paine's Social and Political Thought
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