"In the first years of the 19th century political radicals latched onto Paine's attacks on 'Old Corruption' and how they might dismantle the privileged aristocratic rule inherited from the 18th century. These ideas spoke to artisans and small producers and laid the foundations to 19th-century examinations of wealth and its distribution, even if Paine's analysis which attacked the landed aristocrat would later be replaced by an indictment of the capitalist."
David Nash in History Today recalls Thomas Paine on the bicentennial of Paine's death.
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