John Quiggin — Locke’s Folly

Jeffersonian Democrats made a serious attempt to implement Locke’s theories. Colonization and expropriation followed.

John Locke was an Enlightenment philosopher with an agenda — bourgeois liberalism based on freedom, to exploit land and workers that is.

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Locke’s Folly
John Quiggin | Professor of Economics and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government