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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 Tucker

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
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
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
The right of the majority is absolute.
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Absolutes Majority
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
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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Choice Individual Men Swag
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
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Between Country House Reason
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
It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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Beyond Bullet More Representative
Aggression is simply another name for government.
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Aggression Government Names
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
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Drama Imagination Liberty
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
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
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
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
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Church Corruption War
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
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Children Maintenance School
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
After the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
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Absolute Manner Men Modern Monarch Ordinary
As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader.
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Always Bless Choice Invade Liberty
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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Equality Mean Power Taking Women
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 cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
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Cost Invaders Justice
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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Any Earth Right
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 exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Contradiction Exercise Two
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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Banking Competition Wages
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

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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