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“Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.”

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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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“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

“Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.”

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“And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.”

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“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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“If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.”

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

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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.”

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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