It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to … - Benjamin Tucker

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The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

Benjamin Tucker

It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.

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If I 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. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.

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Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

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Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.

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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

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