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Benjamin Tucker was an American anarchist, writer, and editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his contributions to individualist anarchism, advocating for a stateless, anarchist society through education, cooperation, and voluntary exchange.

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“Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.”

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Book:State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

“Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism”

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“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.”

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Book:State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

“First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.”

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Book:State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

“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.”

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Book:State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

“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.”

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Book:State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

“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.”

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Author:Benjamin Tucker

About the Author

Born: April 17, 1854
Died: June 22, 1939
Known for: Author
Quotes: 61

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