Lysander Spooner: Selected Works of a Libertarian Hero

by Lysander Spooner, Stephen Reuel (Editor)

• A definitive edition of Lysander Spooner's acclaimed works• Includes a Preface and Introduction to Spooner and his works by author Stephen ReuelLysander Spooner (1808-1887) was an American po-litical philosopher, staunch abolitionist and pioneering anti-authoritarian whose courage to dispute tyranny and challenge monopoly reverberates to this day.This definitive edition of his acclaimed works includes No Treason (First, Second & Sixth Series); Vices Are Not Crimes; Natural Or, The Science of Justice; and The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

206 pages, Paperback

Published November 10, 2018

About the author

Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. He is also known for competing with the U.S. Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company, which was forced out of business by the United States government. He has been identified by some contemporary writers as an anarcho-capitalist,while at least one writer is convinced that his advocacy of self-employment over working for an employer for wages qualifies him as an anti-capitalist or a socialist, notwithstanding his support for private ownership of the means of production and a free-market economy.

Reviews

[Thomas Dobson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A classic clarion call to all liberty lovers to defend and preserve freedom that as reverberated into the modern day!

Spooner's case for Natural Law and Natural Justice as an immanent feature of the world is compelling and succinct - it encourages one to deeply question the legitimacy of human "authority." I appreciate his distinction between vice and crime which are universally and erroneously conflated in the modern day and age.

The man established his own postal service and philosophically defended his right to do so with direct reference to the American Constitution - what a legend!