Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty. Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker with Oriole Tucker and Pearl Johnson
The anarchist periodical Liberty published by Tucker reflected the latter embrace of egoist anarchism in the 1880s, causing a conflict between egoists like Tucker and Spoonerian natural lawyers
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person
Benjamin Tucker
…supporter of free-market socialism and libertarian socialism which he termed anarchist or anarchistic socialism. He connected Josiah Warren, Karl Marx and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon to socialism. Some modern commentators have described Tucker as an anarcho-capitalist, although this has been disputed by others. During his lifetime…
The house in Besançon in which Proudhon was born
Proudhon and His Children by Gustave Courbet, 1865
Proudhon's grave in Paris