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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.

— Benjamin Tucker State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)

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Education is a slow process, and may not come too quickly. Anarchists who endeavor to hasten it by joining in the propaganda of State Socialism or revolution make a sad mistake indeed.

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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.

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