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“We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.”

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Benjamin Tucker

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. more

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“The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.”

May Mean States Answers Existence Prove Bases Association Anarchist Abolition Compulsory Invaders

Book:Instead of a Book

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“In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.”

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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.”

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Book:State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

“It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.”

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Author:Benjamin Tucker

“It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.”

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Book:Instead of a Book

Source: Instead of a Book

“The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.”

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Book:Instead of a Book

Source: Instead of a Book

“The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.”

Government Essence Transcendentalism

Book:Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker

Source: Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker

“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”

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Book:Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.”

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Book:Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.”

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Book:Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism

Source: Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism