Dr. Marx Edgeworth Lazarus (February 6, 1822 1895 or 1896) was an American individualist anarchist from Guntersville, AL where he owned a small farm. Lazarus wrote under the pseudonym "Edgeworth." He is the author of several essays and anarchist pamphlettes including Land Tenure: Anarchist View (1889). He was the first-born son of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus, who had an extensive correspondence with the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe...

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A famous quote from Lazarus is "Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me."

Lazarus was also an intellectual contributor to Fourierism and the Free Love

Free Love

Free Love may refer to:*Free love, a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women*"Free Love", a song by Morphine from their 1995 album Yes...

 movement of the 1850s, a social reform group that called for, in its extreme form, the abolition of institutionalized marriage. Members of this movement, which included in its ranks the Oneida Society

Oneida Society

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 and its founder John Humphrey Noyes

John Humphrey Noyes

John Humphrey Noyes was an American utopian socialist. He founded the Oneida Community in 1848. He coined the term "free love".-Early activism:...

, Mary Gove Nichols, Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Claflin Woodhull was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement, an advocate of free love; together with her sister, the first women to operate a brokerage in Wall Street; the first women to start a weekly newspaper; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms and, in 1872,...

, and Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....

, called not for promiscuity or multiple partners, but for the right of people to marry in accordance with romantic desires and be free from state interference. In Lazarus' 1852 essay, Love vs Marriage, he argued that marriage as an institution was akin to "legalized prostitution," oppressing women and men by allowing loveless marriages contracted for economic or utilitarian reasons to take precedence over true love.

Lazarus also published writings on homeopathy and Christianity, in which he advocates spiritual and physical treatments that appear to be precursors to modern day New-Age spirituality.