Individualist anarchism

Individualist anarchism is a philosophical tradition that opposes collectivism and has a particularly strong emphasis on the supremacy and autonomy of the individual. The tradition appears most often in the United States, most notably in regard to its advocacy of private property. Individualist anarchism's roots includes Europeans such as William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Max Stirner (who is also connected to the existentialist philosophy), though the individualist anarchist tradition draws heavily on American independent thinkers, including Josiah Warren, Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Ezra Heywood, Stephen Pearl Andrews, and Henry David Thoreau. Noteworthy anarchist writer and poet John Henry Mackay is also considered an individualist anarchist. Contemporary individualist anarchists title include Robert Anton Wilson, Joe Peacott, Daniel Burton and Keith Preston. Though some individualists have engaged in practical endeavors, individualist anarchism is mostly "philosophical anarchism" as its focus has mainly been on philosophical argumentation to effect change. Individualist anarchism is often seen as a form of liberalism, and hence, has been called "liberal anarchism" http://www.weisbord.org/conquest8.htm.

External links

• Individualist Anarchist Resources
• A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artifical Society by Edmund Burke - some regard this liberal essay to be the first to advocate anarchy
• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin
• The Ego and his Own by Max Stirner, translated by Christian individualist anarchist Steven T. Byington
• Manifesto by Josiah Warren
• Equitable Commerce by Josiah Warren
• State Socialism and Anarchism: How far they agree, and wherein they differ. by Benjamin Tucker (1886)
• Anarchist FAQ: Section on Individualist Anarchism (Mirrored at: http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secGcon.html and http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secGcon.html)

:* Anarchist FAQ: Are individualist anarchists anti-capitalist? (Mirrored at: http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secG1.html and http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secG1.html)

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:*Anarchist FAQ: Why do social anarchists reject individualist anarchism? (Mirrored at: http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secG4.html and http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secG4.html)

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• I. Liberal-Anarchism VIII. Libertarianism from The Conquest of Power, by Albert Weisbordhttp://www.weisbord.org/ discusses individualism of Godwin and Stirner
• American Liberal-Anarchism from The Conquest of Power, by Albert Weisbordhttp://www.weisbord.org/
• American Anarchism by Wendy McElroy 19th Century Individualist Anarchism in America
• Bad Press Contemporary Individualist Anarchist Publications
• Individualist-Anarchist.Net
• The Schism Between Individualist and Communist Anarchism
• Proudhon and Anarchism by Larry Gambone