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Anyone read this one?

Should I just get Paine's writing or can this book be a good introductory piece?

And if you don't know any Thomas Paine, stop reading/contemplating reading Ayn Rand and find you some Paine quick.

[Theists stay the fuck out of this thread please]

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nrrrhrrr.

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>>1478387
Paine embraced commerce as a visible representation
of what he called "society" or man's greatest blessing.
But he was no libertarian.

"... when property is made a pretense for unequal or exclusive rights,
it weakens the right to hold the property, and provokes indignation
and tumult; for it is unnatural to believe that property can be secure
under the guarantee of a society injured in its rights by the
influence of that property." Thomas Paine - Dissertation on First Principles of Government, 1795.