First of all, government monopoly is not the same thing as government regulation. Secondly, Lysander Spooner was a libertarian socialist. Libertarian socialism

First of all, government monopoly is not the same thing as government regulation. Secondly, Lysander Spooner was a libertarian socialist. Libertarian socialism rejects economic control by the state. You’re probably thinking of social democracy when you think of socialism, because social democracy is what you see on the news. Social democracy is only one branch of the socialist movement (or movements). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy