ABSTRACT
Tucker, ever the definer, tried to clarify the conceptual relationships between socialism, anarchism, communism, and the many other specters that haunted America at the end of the nineteenth century. Although many of the ephemeral currents of socialism were grist for criticism in Liberty, the two most important targets were Marxism and anarchist-communism. The differences in economic reforms between these two could be traced to the differences in their general principles: state socialism employed authority while anarchism preferred liberty. Liberals tended to sympathize with the bourgeoisie and this clouded their logic enough so that they could not follow through on their libertarian tendencies. In Liberty, then, liberals and anarchists could argue together as fellow libertarians, while state socialists and anarchists could argue together as fellow socialists. 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, State Socialism and Anarchism.
