Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism, which he called unterrified Jeffersonianism, and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.

Tucker was born on April 17, 1854, in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. In 1872, while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tucker attended a convention of the New England Labor Reform League in Boston, chaired by William B. Greene, author of Mutual Banking . At the convention, Tucker purchased Mutual Banking, Josiah Warrens True Civilization , and a set of freelove anarchist Ezra Heywoods pamphlets. Afterwards, Heywood introduced Tucker to Greene and Warren. All three men would have a serious influence on Tuckers philosophical development. He also started a romantic correspondence with suffragette Victoria Woodhull around the same time, a relationship which lasted for three years.

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