We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
BENJAMIN TUCKERMarx, 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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But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Aggression is simply another name for government.
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In times past…it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off.
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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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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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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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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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War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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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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Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.
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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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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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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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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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Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
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