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The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

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

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