id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9653 Auberon Herbert - Wikipedia .html text/html 3303 298 66 Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert (18 June 1838 – 5 November 1906) was a British writer, theorist, philosopher, and 19th century individualist. He promoted a classical liberal philosophy[1] and took the ideas of Herbert Spencer a stage further by advocating voluntary-funded government that uses force only in defence of individual liberty and private property. McKercher notes that Herbert "was often mistakenly taken as an anarchist" but "a reading of Herbert's work will show that he was not an anarchist."[17] The leading British anarchist journal of the time noted that the "Auberon Herbertites in England are sometimes called Anarchists by outsiders, but they are willing to compromise with the inequity of government to maintain private property."[18] Since the development of anarcho-capitalism in the 1950s, at least one anarcho-capitalist, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, believes that Herbert "develops the Spencerian idea of equal freedom to its logically consistent anarcho-capitalist end" as noted in a bibliography.[19] However, anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard disagreed and called Herbert a "near-anarchist."[20] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9653.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9653.txt