Lysander Spooner
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Lysander Spooner was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist
Lysander Spooner by Hardy
Spooner is interred in the historic Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
Benjamin Tucker
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Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty. Tucker
Lysander Spooner
…proposed his new form of banking system with the value of money attached to specie and real estate, which he believed would prevent inflation. Unlike Benjamin Tucker, Spooner was not opposed to violent uprisings against unjust systems. In 1880 Spooner advocated for the Irish to rise up and kill their British landlords…
Benjamin Tucker
Tucker at a young age
Benjamin Tucker with Oriole Tucker and Pearl Johnson
The anarchist periodical Liberty published by Tucker reflected the latter embrace of egoist anarchism in the 1880s, causing a conflict between egoists like Tucker and Spoonerian natural lawyers