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Benjamin Tucker
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American journalist and anarchist (1854-1939)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- A grammar of chemistry
- Ivan the Fool
- Lost Opportunity
- Individual Liberty
- System of Economical Contradictions
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958-10-10
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 31
- Total plays
- 246
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,987x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,843x
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,574x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 30,809x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,976x
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Quotes
- “Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry.”
- “It was at this point — the necessity of striking down monopoly — that came the parting of their ways. Here the road forked. They found that they must turn either to the right or to the left, — follow either the path of Authority or the path of Liberty. Marx went one way; Warren and Proudhon the other. Thus were born State Socialism and Anarchism.”
- “This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.”
- “Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.”
- “Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.”
- “If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.”
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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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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.