*Ø* Blogmanac April 17, 1854| Happy birthday, Benjamin Tucker
1854 Birth of Benjamin Tucker (d. 1939), American publisher, journalist, propagandist, theorist, leading proponent of individualist anarchism in the 19th century, born at South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA. Tucker translated into English Proudhon’s classic work What is Property?
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker's contribution to American anarchism was as much through his publishing as his own writing. In editing and publishing the anarchist periodical, Liberty, Tucker both filtered and integrated the theories of such European thinkers as Herbert Spencer and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon with the thinking of American individualist activists, Lysander Spooner, Ezra Heywood, Stephen Pearl Andrews, William Greene and Josiah Warren, as well as the uniquely American free thought and free love movements in order to produce a rigorous system of philosophical or individualist anarchism.
Tucker shared with the advocates of free love and free thought a disdain for prohibitions on non-invasive behavior and religiously-based legislation, but he saw the poor condition of American workers as a result of four state-maintained monopolies: the money monopoly, the land monopoly, tariffs, and patents.
For 27 years his journal Liberty ('The Mother, not the Daughter of Order') served as a voice of individualist anarchism, opposed to the major anarchist communist and anarchist syndicalist wings of the movement. Liberty published such works as George Bernard Shaw's first original article to appear in the United States, the first American translated excerpts of Friedrich Nietzsche.
The Daily Bleed says that Liberty, until recently was the longest running anarchist journal in American history (the Detroit publication ‘The Fifth Estate’ is now past its 28th year). Tucker converted to anarchism Jo Labadie, whose personal papers formed the basis of the famed Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.
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1854 Birth of Benjamin Tucker (d. 1939), American publisher, journalist, propagandist, theorist, leading proponent of individualist anarchism in the 19th century, born at South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA. Tucker translated into English Proudhon’s classic work What is Property?
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker's contribution to American anarchism was as much through his publishing as his own writing. In editing and publishing the anarchist periodical, Liberty, Tucker both filtered and integrated the theories of such European thinkers as Herbert Spencer and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon with the thinking of American individualist activists, Lysander Spooner, Ezra Heywood, Stephen Pearl Andrews, William Greene and Josiah Warren, as well as the uniquely American free thought and free love movements in order to produce a rigorous system of philosophical or individualist anarchism.
Tucker shared with the advocates of free love and free thought a disdain for prohibitions on non-invasive behavior and religiously-based legislation, but he saw the poor condition of American workers as a result of four state-maintained monopolies: the money monopoly, the land monopoly, tariffs, and patents.
For 27 years his journal Liberty ('The Mother, not the Daughter of Order') served as a voice of individualist anarchism, opposed to the major anarchist communist and anarchist syndicalist wings of the movement. Liberty published such works as George Bernard Shaw's first original article to appear in the United States, the first American translated excerpts of Friedrich Nietzsche.
The Daily Bleed says that Liberty, until recently was the longest running anarchist journal in American history (the Detroit publication ‘The Fifth Estate’ is now past its 28th year). Tucker converted to anarchism Jo Labadie, whose personal papers formed the basis of the famed Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives, with more links, at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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