On the record
Liberate all this loanable capital--promissory notes--that is now lying idle, and we liberate all labor, and furnish to all laborers all the capital they need for their industries.
Said by
Lysander Spooner
Source
gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Liberate all this loanable capital--promissory notes--that is now lying idle, and we liberate all labor, and furnish to…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner suggests that freeing up idle capital would empower laborers by providing them with the necessary resources for their work.
Share
More from Lysander Spooner
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They acknowledge it to be our unquestioned right and duty to kill them, if we can; that they expect nothing else, than that we will kill them, if we can; and that we are only fools and cowards, if we do not kill them, by any and every…
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.