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Benjamin Tucker

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Contradiction Exercise Two
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
The right of the majority is absolute.
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Absolutes Majority
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
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
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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Liberty Light Political
[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.
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Giving Increase States
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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Country Names School
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
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 State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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Anarchy Evil Unnecessary
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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Blow Strikes Wages
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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Authority Liberty War
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Aquarium Care Essential
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
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
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that ‘property is robbery’ to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet.
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Book Mean
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 cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
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Cost Invaders Justice
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
Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ‘ invasion, but a minimum of pain.
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Atheism Coercion Pain
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
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
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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Men Power Tyrant
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
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
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

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