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"Going Postal: a Libertarian Tradition." Excerpt: BENJAMIN TUCKER, editor of Liberty (1881–1908) and the prototypical 19th-century radical libertarian, constantly experimented with strategies to educate people away from government. He particularly delighted in anti-government stickers, which he declared to be “highly useful” because of their cheapness and versatility. The stickers were “invented” by Steven T. Byington, who also translated Max Stirner’s Ego and His Own, and they were advertised in Liberty as “aggressive, concise ... assertions and arguments in sheets, gummed and perforated, to be planted everywhere as broadcast seed for thought.” Each sheet contained 25 stickers that were particularly appropriate for gluing onto envelopes.... Tucker was especially delighted by the irony of the sticker singled out for censorship. It was a quotation from John Stuart Mill: "Where everything is done through the bureaucracy, nothing to which the bureaucracy is really adverse can be done at all."



Wendy McElroy - Tuesday 17 June 2008 - 22:00:00 - Permalink - Printer Friendly

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