Lysander Spooner

American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)

Person · Open Library

Born: 19 January 1808
Died: 14 May 1887
Works: 67

Top works

Revolution, the only remedy for the oppressed classes of Ireland, England, and other parts of the British Empire
A letter to scientists and inventors, on the science of justice, and their right of perpetual, etc
Who caused the reduction of postage? Ought he to be paid?
The unconstitutionality of slavery
The unconstitutionality of the laws of Congress, prohibiting private mails

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: United States
Active from: 1974
Active to: 1993

power pop

Discography

Cruel School1979
Where You Gonna Run? / You're The Lucky One1980
Every Corner Dance1982
Wildest Dreams1985
Mean Old World1986
Wildest Dreams / Every Corner Dance1988
The Fugitive Dance1990
Hindsight2013

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 36
Total plays: 456

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Review of Particle Physics
· 2004 · cited 3,665x
The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics
· 2009 · cited 3,498x
Review of Particle Properties
· 2002 · cited 2,773x
A Randomized Trial of Chemoradiotherapy and Chemotherapy after Resection of Pancreatic Cancer
· 2004 · cited 2,236x
Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
· 2021 · cited 1,520x

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Quotes

“If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.”
“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally — perhaps more than equally, because more boldly — rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power. There is no more reason, then, why a man should either sustain, or submit to, the rule of the majority, than of a minority.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1808-01-19 ) January 19, 1808, Athol, Massachusetts , U.S.
Died: May 14, 1887 (1887-05-14) (aged 79), Boston , Massachusetts , U.S.
Occupation: Entrepreneur, lawyer and writer
Subject: Political philosophy
Notable works: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845), No Treason (1867)
Era: 19th-century philosophy
Region: Western philosophy
School: Iusnaturalism
Main interests: Abolitionism Mutual banking Natural law Right to property Tax resistance

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Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.

Spooner was a strong advocate of the labor movement and is politically identified with individualist anarchism. His writings contributed to the development of both left-libertarian and right-libertarian political theory.