06.24.07

Spooner Article Resurrected

Posted in Anarchy, Online Texts, Democracy, Left-Libertarian at 12:16 am by Administrator

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power and Mises Blog]

Lysander Spooner was the foremost legal theorist of the 19th-century American individualist anarchist movement. His 1882 open letter to Senator Bayard is fairly well-known among Spooner fans; but an 1884 sequel, A Second Letter to Thomas F. Bayard, which originally appeared in Benjamin Tucker’s anarchist journal Liberty, is much more obscure; it was omitted (like most of Spooner’s periodical work) from the Collected Works, and indeed has never (so far as I can determine) been reprinted anywhere else. Now at last I am happy to announce that it is available in the Molinari Institute online library.

I can’t claim that this is one of Spooner’s more important works. Apart from a more than usually irascible tone, it contains little that isn’t already covered in the first letter, or still more fully in other works such as No Treason or Natural Law or the Letter to Grover Cleveland. But hey, it’s Spooner.

And speaking of material from Tucker’s Liberty, hurray for Shawn Wilbur! He’s been scanning issues of Liberty (including the one containing this Spooner piece) and placing the PDFs online. Check out what he’s got so far.

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12 Comments »

Shawn P. Wilbur said,

June 24, 2007 at 11:38 am

Excellent! Thanks, Roderick. It’s nice to see this available in a searchable form. It’s amazing what’s tucked away in “Liberty.” There’s a lot of left-libertarian heritage there to be reclaimed.
Brainpolice said,

June 25, 2007 at 12:10 am

Appriciate the pdfs. Thankyou.
Shawn P. Wilbur said,

June 25, 2007 at 6:02 pm

Speaking of truly ephemeral Spooner, I finally found his petition to Congress to improve navigation on the Maumee River. That’s local history for me, as well as good anarchist trivia. I’ll try to post it this week.
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