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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERIs not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
More Benjamin Tucker Quotes
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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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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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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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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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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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The right of the majority is absolute.
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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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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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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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It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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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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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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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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Anarchism 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….. Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. “
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