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Benjamin Ricketson Tucker. Instead of a Book

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Table of Contents

PREFACE

State Socialism and Anarchism

THE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY, AND. THE STATE

MONEY AND INTEREST

LAND AND RENT

SOCIALISM

COMMUNISM

METHODS

MISCELLANEOUS

INDEX

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Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Published by Good Press, 2020

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Why do Mr. Blodgett and all those who agree with him so persistently disregard the constructive side of Anarchism? The chief claim of Anarchism for its principles is that the abolition of legal monopoly will so transform social conditions that ignorance, vice, and crime will gradually disappear. However often this may be stated and however definitely it may be elaborated, the Blodgetts will approach you, apparently gravely unconscious that any remark has been made, and say: "If there are no policemen, the criminal classes will run riot." Tell them that, when the system of commercial cannibalism which rests on legal privilege disappears, cutthroats will disappear with it, and they will not deny it or attempt to disprove it, but they will first blink at you a moment with their owl-like eyes, and then from out their mouths will come the old, familiar hoot: "Tu-whit! tu-whoo! If a ruffian tries to cut your throat, what are you going to do about it? Tu-whit! tu-whoo!"

RIGHTS AND DUTIES UNDER ANARCHY.

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