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Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
American Activist
Born: Apr 17, 1854
Died: Jun 22, 1939
Act Capital Liberty Men Socialism Society
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
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. Benjamin Tucker
Socialism State Anarchism Has-Been Between House Half-Way Said Been May Just Rome Reason
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. Benjamin Tucker
Defensive Term Offensive Any Cannot Act Applied
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. Benjamin Tucker
Ignorance Whatever Defensive Strictly Punishment Through Ineffective Least However May Capital Capital Punishment Act Theory
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
Government Socialism Men First State Individual Doctrine Affairs May Regardless Which Then Choice Should
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 Tucker
Seen Society Stated Worst Punishment Like Know Also Principle Human Form Justified Capital Capital Punishment Should Human Society Based
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
School Matter Nursery State Anarchist Favor System Neither Would Prevails Maintenance School System Institute Nor Children Which Rearing Keep Now Socialists
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. Benjamin Tucker
Socialism Society On The Contrary Making Discovery Contrary Should Means Description Function
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. Benjamin Tucker
Government Control Attempt Essence
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. Benjamin Tucker
Socialism Liberty Thought Other State Anarchism Respectively Unreservedly Names Schools Principles Referred Authority Represent Which Them Fully Two
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. Benjamin Tucker
Pain Minimum Invasion Justified Ground Therefore Coercion

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