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Benjamin Tucker:
Tucker is clearly one of the greatest classic Anarchists of all times,
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" Probably no agitation has ever attained the magnitude, either in the
number of its recruits or the area of its influence, which has been attained
by Modern Socialism, and at the same time been so little understood and
so misunderstood, not only by the hostile and the indifferent, but by the
friendly, and even by the great mass of its adherents themselves. This
unfortunate and highly dangerous state of things is due partly to the fact
that the human relationships which this movement - if anything so chaotic
can be called a movement - aims to transform, involve no special class
or classes, but literally all mankind; partly to the fact that these relationships
are infinitely more varied and complex in their nature than those with
which any special reform has ever been called upon to deal; and partly
to the fact that the great moulding forces of society, the channels of
information and enlightenment, are well-nigh exclusively under the control
of those whose immediate pecuniary interests are antagonistic to the bottom
claim of Socialism that labor should be put in possession of its own. "
... taken from Individual Liberty, Vanguard Press, New York, 1926.
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