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Lysander Spooner: It implies that their industry--which is really the national industry--is not to be carried on at all for their own…

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It implies that their industry--which is really the national industry--is not to be carried on at all for their own benefit, but only for the benefit of their employers, the monopolists of money.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner asserts that the national industry should benefit the laborers rather than just the money monopolists.

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