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.
BENJAMIN TUCKEROne thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
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An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
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It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions.
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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.
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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
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Mind your own business” is its own moral law. Interference with another’s business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted.
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War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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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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[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.
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Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.
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The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
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It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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