Ep. 322 Lysander Spooner: Anti-Slavery, Pro-Secession
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Spooner Writings Discussed
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery
Spooner Website
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.0 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.8 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.2 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the Tom Woods show, episode 32. |
| 0:38.8 | I enjoyed a nice long weekend with the family, so there was no episode yesterday, January 19, 2015. |
| 0:46.9 | But here we are with episode 32, and for this episode, I am taking the advice, I'm following the suggestion of somebody on my Facebook page |
| 0:55.9 | who suggested that I talk about Lysander Spooner, that we've not had an episode on Lysander Spooner. |
| 1:01.1 | I thought, oh, that can't be. Over 320 episodes, of course we've done an episode. |
| 1:06.4 | It turns out we haven't. Have not done an episode on Lysander Spooner. So my first instinct always is |
| 1:11.7 | who would be a good guest to invite, talk about Lysander Spooner? And then I thought, well, |
| 1:16.5 | why don't I talk about Lysander Spooner? I know a little bit about the subject. I want to talk |
| 1:20.3 | about a couple of his works and his ideas. He's a very interesting guy. He's the kind of guy. |
| 1:27.3 | He's like Frederick Bostiott. |
| 1:29.1 | You read him and you're changed afterward. Even if you're not completely converted, your mind has |
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