This distinction between invasion and resistance, between government and defence, is vital. Without it there can be no valid philosophy of politics. Upon this distinction and the other considerations just outlined, the Anarchists frame the desired definitions. This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will. And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.


The Relation of the State to the Invididual (1890)

Benjamin Tucker Quotes

This distinction between invasion and resistance, between government and defence, is vital. Without it there can be no valid philosophy of politics....

This distinction between invasion and resistance, between government and defence, is vital. Without it there can be no valid philosophy of politics....

This distinction between invasion and resistance, between government and defence, is vital. Without it there can be no valid philosophy of politics....

This distinction between invasion and resistance, between government and defence, is vital. Without it there can be no valid philosophy of politics....