 | Letter on Translating StirnerBy Benjamin R. Tucker (1907) |
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| Letter on Translating StirnerBy Benjamin R. Tucker (1907) |
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American Father of Individualist Anarchism
: An individualist Anarchist, Tucker was a person of intellect rather than of action, focusing on the development of his ideas and on the publication of books and journals, especially the journal Liberty: Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
• "Even in so delicate a matter as that of the relations of the sexes the Anarchists do not shrink from the application of their principle. They acknowledge and defend the right of any man and woman, or any men and women, to love each other for as long or as short a time as they can, will, or may. To them legal marriage and legal divorce are equal absurdities." (From: "State Socialism and Anarchism," by Benjamin R. Tu....)
• "It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it..." (From: "State Socialism and Anarchism," by Benjamin R. Tu....)
• "If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State." (From: "State Socialism and Anarchism," by Benjamin R. Tu....)
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Letter on Translating Stirner
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Dear Mr. [George] Schumm:
As to the sentence about the rich and the poor giving up themselves, I was to blame for the false rendering. But now that I know from you the meaning, I know also that both you and Byington conspicuously fail to express that meaning. I do not understand, however, why Stirner should say such a thing. I thought the whole purpose of the book was to show that it is not beneficially to anybody to give up themselves.
I now render it as follows (and, if wrong, should be corrected at once ): “Why should the rich let go their fleeces and give up themselves , though a similar course could be followed advantageously by the poor?”
When I see you (next Saturday evening_ why I think it would be unwise to have still a third price for the book.
I regret to say that the book will not be a “fine” book. It will only be passable. The important proofreading features will be all right, thanks to our combined efforts. But I know that the locking-up for has not been done really well either at Tuttles or at the Winthrop. In so many of the pages the lines are just the least bit crooked. When this fault is both constant and slight, it is hard to guard against it. But the general effect is deplorable. When the whole job is safely in the hands of the binder (who is A1) I shall heave a deep sigh of relief.
Yours sincerely,
Benjamin R. Tucker
From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org
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