Quotes by Benjamin Tucker

About Benjamin Tucker:

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was 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.
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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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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

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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 right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

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Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Benjamin Tucker

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

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

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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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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

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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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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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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameBenjamin Tucker
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist and anarchist
  • AliasesBenjamin Ricketson Tucker
  • BornApril 17, 1854
  • DiedJune 22, 1939
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Philosopher