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Benjamin Tucker
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American journalist and anarchist (1854-1939)
Key facts
- Born
- Benjamin Ricketson Tucker , ( 1854-04-17 ) April 17, 1854, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- June 22, 1939 (1939-06-22) (aged 85), Monaco
- Occupations
- Editor , publisher , writer
- Era
- Modern philosophy 19th-century philosophy 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy American philosophy
- School
- Individualist anarchism , Libertarian socialism , Mutualism
- Main interests
- Politics , economics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Family name
- Tucker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Dartmouth
- Place of death
- Monaco
- Occupation
- anarchist
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Image
- Benjamin Tucker.jpg
- Political ideology
- anarchism
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- Benjamin Tucker
- date of birth
- 1854-04-17
- date of death
- 1939-06-22
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- writing language
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- Commons Creator page
- Benjamin Tucker
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
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Encyclopedic overview
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (/ˈtʌkər/; April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty (1881–1908). Tucker described his form of anarchism as "consistent Manchesterism" and "unterrified Jeffersonianism".
Tucker looked upon anarchism as a part of the broader socialist movement. Tucker harshly opposed state socialism and was a supporter of free-market socialism and libertarian socialism which he termed anarchist or anarchistic socialism. He connected Josiah Warren, Karl Marx and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon to socialism. Some modern commentators have described Tucker as an anarcho-capitalist, although this has been disputed by others. During his lifetime, Tucker opposed capitalism and considered himself a socialist due to wanting to increase human welfare by acting upon social relations and environment, rather than on nature of individuals, and his support for preventing possession of wealth from being a means of levying on the product of labor.
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