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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 Tucker

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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Liberty Light Political
Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.
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Movement School Socialistic Understand
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Men Names
Aggression is simply another name for government.
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Aggression Government Names
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
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Cost Invaders Justice
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
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Privilege Slavery Voting
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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Apparent Mean Power Privilege Simply Usury Vanish
Man’s only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor’s, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.
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Disoppessed Land Man Neighbour
The right of the majority is absolute.
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Absolutes Majority
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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Genocide Hate Men
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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Ignorance May Punishment
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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Answers Compulsory Leave May Mean
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Government Transcendentalism
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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Discovery Eugenics Mean
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
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Anarchy Definitions Government
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.
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Government Liberty Purpose

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.

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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.

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