Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Ricketson Tuckerwas a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism, which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism," and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1854
CityDartmout, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Benjamin Tucker quotes about
school rome names
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
mean discovery socialism
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
government definitions anarchy
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
war passive-resistance peaceful
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
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That those prominent in the intermediate Socialistic divisions do not fully understand what they are about is evident from the positions they occupy.
society
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
based capital human principle punishment seen society stated worst
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
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This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
government anarchy individual
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
anarchist democrat
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
names government aggression
Aggression is simply another name for government.
war liberty authority
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
power men tyrants
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.