Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Ricketson Tuckerwas a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism, which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism," and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1854
CityDartmout, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Benjamin Tucker quotes about
men law anarchy
The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law ...
government definitions anarchy
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.
believe government anarchy
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.
government definitions anarchy
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...
evil anarchy unnecessary
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
government anarchy individual
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
american-activist divisions evident fully positions prominent understand
That those prominent in the intermediate Socialistic divisions do not fully understand what they are about is evident from the positions they occupy.
socialism communism said
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism
government liberty purpose
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.
ignorance punishment may
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.
men individual-choice choices
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.
hate men love-and-hate
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
kings wings leader
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.
acceptance errors lexicographer
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.