Benjamin Tucker notes this ambiguity by asserting, "Whatever he may have called himself or refused to call himself, he was practically an Anarchist" ("Our Nestor" 7).
He continued writing until his death, and he published articles in the Radical Review and Liberty newspapers of fellow Bostonian, Benjamin Tucker. By the time Spooner died in 1887, his No Treason arguments had virtually no adherents, and many who came across his publication demoted it to the expression of "radical" thought (Shone viii-ix).
Benjamin Tucker's statement of history education's purpose illustrates this.
THE COVER of Terence Kissack's book depicts a rainbow flag over-laid with the portraits of Benjamin Tucker, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, John William Lloyd, and Leonard Abbott--five important figures within the American anarchist movement during the early years of the 20th century.
The role of Benjamin Tucker was nothing short of heroic.
Lawrence Moss's heavily footnoted thirty-page article reviews major exponents of what he calls American property anarchism: Josiah Warren, Joshua Ingalls, William Greene,
Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, and Murray Rothbard.
He critiques multiculturalism and counter-poses individualist and libertarian approaches to understanding and combating racism by surveying critiques of racism from such figures as Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard,
Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Albert Jay Nock, and Max Stirner, finding them to contain pointers towards a transracial and post-ethnic future.
"We suspect that the doctors in Guantanamo and elsewhere have made the same mistake as
Benjamin Tucker, who, in 1991, in expressing remorse and seeking reinstatement, said: 'I had gradually lost the fearless independence...
Fire in His Heart: Bishop
Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E.
Interviews with the offspring of Johann Most,
Benjamin Tucker, and Peter Kropotkin tend to deal with the parenting skills of the early pioneer of the movement.
The most famous individualist anarchist journal of 19th century America was Liberty, edited by the fiery polemicist
Benjamin Tucker. But Liberty wasn't the movement's only periodical, and anyone interested in that period of libertarian history should welcome any chance to examine the outlets edited by figures with different sensibilities.
Originally issued by Benjamin Tucker, New York, 1908.
Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, and Individualist Anarchism.
Their anarchoindividualist contributors range from
Benjamin Tucker to James Joyce.
(7.) Perhaps the best portrait of Tucker, the man, remains Paul Avrich's "
Benjamin Tucker and His Daughter" (Avrich 1988, 144-52).
