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Benjamin Tucker

Individualist anarchism

It is a primary source of American individualist anarchism, essential to a route on that tradition.

Synopsis

Tucker's collected writings presenting American individualist anarchism: liberty, market competition without privilege, and opposition to both state and monopoly.

Core passage idea

Paraphrase · Public domain

Genuine liberty means abolishing the state-granted monopolies that let the few exploit the many, leaving free competition among equals.

It frames anarchism as radical free-market liberty against privilege, distinct from both communism and capitalism-as-usual.

To avoid a bubble

Pair with Capitalism and Freedom.

Reading note

Assembled from polemical journalism; read it as engaged debate, noting Tucker's quarrels with rival radicals.

Best paired with

Capitalism and Freedom

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