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(73)Lysander Spooner, "No Treason, Number Six,"
The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner Vol.
(Weston, Mass.: Mand S Press, 1971), pp. 1-59.
( 7 4 ) F red Mille r, " L Ysan dera n d Lim i ted Go vern ­
ment," Reason (May, 1976) pp. 19-21, asserts that
Spooner's argument is actually consistent only with
1 imi ted government, and not anarchism. To some extent,
this is a matter of semantics. If we define.government
so as to make it compatible with no initiated force,
then Spooner's philosophy is consistent with limited
government. But then so are the philosophies of all
other anarchists.
(75)Lysander Spooner, "An Essay on the Trial by
Jury," The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner, Vol.
I I ( We s ton, Ma s s .: Mand S Pres s, 19 7 1 ), P • 6.
(76)Ibid. For a sneering "analysis" of
Spooner's ideas see A. John Alexander, "The Ideas of
Lysander Spooner," The New England Quarterly (June
1950), pp. 200-17. For a more sympathetic treatment of
Spooner see such works as CarlWatner, "Lysander
Spooner, Libertarian Pioneer," Reason (March, 1973),
pp. 20-23; Carl Watner, "Lysander Spooner: From
Constitutional Lawyer to Individualist Anarchist," Ope
cit.; Martin, pp. 167-201; and Reichert, pp. 117-40.
Also of interest is Charles Shively's "BIography" of
Spooner in The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner,
V0 I. I ( We s t on, Ma s s .: Mand S Pre s s, 19 7 1 ), Pp. 15 - 62 .
( 7 7 ) Ma x S t i r n e r, The Ego and His Own ( New Yo r k :
Dover PUblishing, 1973), p. 5.
(78)Ibid., p. 179.
( 79 ) T u c k e r, "I n d i v i d u a ISo v ere i gn t y Our Goa I , "
Ins tea d 0 f aBo 0 k, P • 1 32 • Ric ha r d His k e s has rna d e a
very strong case that "to the extent that Tucker
believes in equal liberty he is no egoist." See his
Community and Freedom: The Political Theory of Cooperative
Individualism (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation:
Indiana University, 1979). See especially, p. 128: "To
advocat'e egoism or the view that the 'only source of
reasons for action lies in the interests of the
agents,' precludes one from making demands or claims on
others on any other basis than that of the power or
·brute force one has to back up the claims. As a pacifist,
Tucker would shrink at such a prospect; as an
anarchist he must reject it, for of all types of political
discontents anarchists are without doubt the most
'resentfUl' of the political world in which they live."
Further, Hlskes notes, Tucker's concern for "the law of
equal liberty" actually smuggles in natural law principles
(pp. 129-30).
(80)Tucker, "A CrIticism That Does Not Apply,fl
219