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Lysander Spooner: In nearly or quite all the other countries of the world, labor is not only robbed and enslaved, but to a great extent…

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In nearly or quite all the other countries of the world, labor is not only robbed and enslaved, but to a great extent paralyzed, by the monopoly of land, and by what may properly be called the utter absence of money.
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Lysander Spooner

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He describes how labor is paralyzed in many countries due to land monopolies and lack of money.

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