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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.

~Benjamin Tucker

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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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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.

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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 Tucker

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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.

~Benjamin Tucker

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

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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

~Benjamin Tucker

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Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

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One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

~Benjamin Tucker

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: April 17th, 1854

Died: June 22nd, 1939

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