Editing Lysander Spooner (section)

==Political views==
Spooner was an anti-capitalist individualist.{{sfn|Long|2020|p=30}} This association is wrapped in the definition of capitalism, whether viewed as a system of managerial domination and exploitation, or a simpler definition of free market with private property, since Spooner supported the latter.{{sfn|Long|2020|p=30}} According to [[Peter Marshall (author, born 1946)|Peter Marshall]], "the egalitarian implications of traditional individualist anarchists" such as Spooner and [[Benjamin Tucker]] have been overlooked.{{Sfn|Marshall|2008|pp=564–565}}

As an [[individualist anarchist]], Spooner advocated for pre-industrial living in communities of small property holders so that they could pursue [[Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness|life, liberty, happiness and property]] in mutual honesty without ceding responsibility to a central government.<ref name="Rosemont 2015 p. 78"/> In addition to his extra-governmental post service and views on abolitionism, Spooner wrote ''No Treason'' in which he contends that the Constitution is based on voluntary consent and that citizens are not bound by involuntary allegiance.{{Sfn|Martin|1970|pp=191–192}} Spooner argued that the national Congress should dissolve and let citizens rule themselves as he held that individuals should make their own fates.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gay|first1=Kathlyn|last2=Gay|first2=Martin|title=Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy|chapter=Spooner, Lysander|date=1999|isbn=978-0874369823|publisher=ABC-CLIO|pages=193–195}}</ref>