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Benjamin Tucker

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Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854-1939) was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. He edited and published the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty from 1881 to 1908, and described his own form of anarchism as consistent Manchesterism and unterrified Jeffersonianism. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1854 1
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1. Benjamin Tucker (Wikipedia)
  • infobox birth_date field
    birth_date = April 17, 1854
  • Practices Studied: Law, Article text
    Juries would form the basis of the anarchist legal order imagined by Tucker, they would "judge not only the facts, but the law", the laws would "be little more than suggestions for the guidance of juries" and the law "be so flexible that it will shape itself to every emergency and need no alteration.
  • Practices Studied: The Market, Article text
    But under system of a free market without state monopolies and privileges, which he believed to, among others, prevent zero-interest loans from being accessible to the workers, the capitalists would have a right to suppress aggressive strikers.
  • Practices Studied: The State, Article text
    But under system of a free market without state monopolies and privileges, which he believed to, among others, prevent zero-interest loans from being accessible to the workers, the capitalists would have a right to suppress aggressive strikers.
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