Benjamin Tucker on order
Benjamin Tucker64 quotes“Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation.”
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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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker [T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man … or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The right of the majority is absolute.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape …. have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority ….
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that ‘the best government is that which governs least,’ and that which governs least is no government at all.
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