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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.

Benjamin Tucker

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Liberty Light Political
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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Kings Leader Wings
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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Injury Insult Liberty Men
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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Liberty Mother Order
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
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.
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Names School Socialistic Two
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty’s work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
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Competition Opportunity War
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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Bully Lying Voting
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
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,
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Another Changed Governor Invasion Man
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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Anarchy Definitions Government
Aggression is simply another name for government.
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Aggression Government Names
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Contradiction Exercise Two
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.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Apparent Mean Power Privilege Simply Usury Vanish
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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Anarchy Believe Government
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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Authority Liberty War

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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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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