Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.
BENJAMIN TUCKERFor, 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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The right of the majority is absolute.
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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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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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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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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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This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
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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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We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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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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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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If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.
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