Thomas Paine was a politician, writer, philosopher, radical intellectual and American revolutionary of English origin. Promoter of liberalism and democracy. He is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
In addition to the idea of US independence, he also advocated political democracy and also social democracy, focusing especially on the issue of land ownership. For this reason he has been included in the group of "agrarian socialists", together with Thomas Spence and William Ogilvie de Pittensear.