Not who you're looking for? Others named Benjamin Tucker: American journalist and anarchist (1854-1939) · English civil servant (1762–1829)
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“It was at this point — the necessity of striking down monopoly — that came the parting of their ways. Here the road forked. They found that they must turn either to the right or to the left, — follow either the path of Authority or the path of Liberty. Marx went one way; Warren and Proudhon the other. Thus were born State Socialism and Anarchism.”
“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.”
“Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.”
“If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.”
“I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.”
“The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.”
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