Benjamin R. Tucker
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Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854–1939)
American individualist anarchist
Rothbard: "I was enchanted particularly with Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty, the great individualist anarchist magazine published for nearly three decades in the latter part of the nineteenth century. I was particularly delighted by Tucker’s incisive logic, his clear and lucid style, and his ruthless dissection of numerous “deviations” from his particular line."
Books
Pubs
- Liberty
in THE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 1899
"The Chicago Trust Conference"
... Professor John B. Clark presented the ablest economic discussion, captivating the audience alike by his impartiality and his scholarship. A more extreme wing was represented by George Gunton who delivered a panegyric on centralization, seeming to ignore any possibility of abuses. He showed boldness in presenting views distasteful to many of his auditors, dogmatism in his statements, and eloquence unusual in economic discussion. Striking, too, were the speeches of B.R. Tucker, the anarchist, and T.J. Morgan, a socialist of local reputation, both of whom defended industrial consolidation. Even Chicago prejudice against the term anarchy did not prevent appreciation of the rugged logic which carried the principles of industrial freedom to its extreme limit; in contrast the socialist, with more of the demagogue and less of the philosopher, pushed the claims made for the trust to the logical outcome of a socialist regime where all industry would be operated by one all-embracing public trust....
