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“Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. Its growth in importance is but an evidence of the tendency of progress toward the abolition of the State.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

The Relation of the State to the Invididual (1890)

“I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Individual Liberty (1926), Anarchism and Capital Punishment

Life , Way

“I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Individual Liberty (1926), Anarchism and Capital Punishment

“The Anarchists believe in the family; they only insist that free competition and experiment shall always be allowed in order that it may be determined what form of family best secures this object.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Individual Liberty (1926), Liberty and Politics

Family

“Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

¶ 19
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)

“I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

¶ 34
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)

Time , Falseness

“The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Individual Liberty (1926), Liberty and Politics

Freedom

“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. The nurse and the teacher, like the doctor and the preacher, must be selected voluntarily, and their services must be paid for by those who patronize them. Parental rights must not be taken away, and parental responsibilities must not be foisted upon others.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

¶ 31
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)

Children , School , Parent , Teachers

“The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

The Relation of the State to the Invididual (1890)

Exercises

“It was at this point — the necessity of striking down monopoly — that came the parting of their ways. Here the road forked. They found that they must turn either to the right or to the left, — follow either the path of Authority or the path of Liberty. Marx went one way; Warren and Proudhon the other. Thus were born State Socialism and Anarchism.”

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

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State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)

Way , Parting