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- He found romance awkward and never married. But his friend Benjamin Tucker, editor of Liberty magazine, hailed Spooner for his “towering strength of intellect, whose sincerity and singleness of purpose, and whose frank and loving heart would endear him to generations to come…”
Jul 4, 2000 · Spooner got to know the eloquent journalist and editor Benjamin Tucker who believed government is so incompetent, dishonest and violent that people would be better off without it. Tucker was born in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, April 17, 1854. He described his parents as “radical Unitarians.”
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Spooner became associated with Benjamin Tucker's American individualist anarchist journal Liberty which published all of his later works in serial format and for which he wrote several editorial columns on current events.
Jul 30, 2014 · In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.
Oct 1, 2005 · The 19th-century individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker called Lysander Spooner “our Nestor,” a Greek name denoting “wisdom.” The 20th-century libertarian Murray Rothbard referred to Spooner as “the last of the great natural rights theorists … the last of the Old Guard believers in natural rights.”
Nov 1, 2005 · Spooner’s legacy was preserved largely by younger radicals of the day who viewed him as a mentor, especially Benjamin Tucker. Upon Spooner’s death, Tucker purchased his printed pamphlets and unpublished manuscripts from the estate.
Jan 12, 2019 · As Benjamin Tucker, Spooner’s mentee, described: “[A]s the carrying of each letter constituted a separate offense, the government was able to shower prosecutions on him and crush him out by loading him with legal expenses.” Spooner went back to Athol and dedicated himself to the abolitionist cause as the Civil War drew near.
As Benjamin Tucker, Spooner’s mentee described: “As the carrying of each letter constituted a separate offense, the government was able to shower prosecutions on him and crush him out by loading him with legal expenses.”.
