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  Anarchism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Based on this etymology, anarchists are typically described as rejecting all forms of rule or domination, including all instances of enforced or representational government and any concept of the State, and instead favouring social relations that are voluntarily and freely established among individuals.
Individualist anarchism is a philosophical tradition that opposes collectivism and has a particularly strong emphasis on the supremacy and autonomy of the individual.
Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement (pdf) is an article from a law enforcement perspective that includes a look at tactics, philosophy and a history of the Anarchist movement in the United States.
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 G.1 Are individualist anarchists anti-capitalist?
The individualist anarchists viewed with horror the rise of capitalism and its imposition on an unsuspecting American population, supported and encouraged by state action (in the form of protection of private property in land, restricting money issuing to state approved banks using specie, government orders supporting capitalist industry, tariffs and so on).
Individualist anarchism is clearly a form of artisanal socialism (which reflects its American roots) while communist anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism are forms of industrial (or proletarian) socialism (which reflects its roots in Europe).
Little wonder that Individualist Anarchism was considered a real solution to the problems generated by the creation of capitalism in the USA and that, by the 1880s, Communist Anarchist (and later anarcho-syndicalism) became the dominant forms of anarchism.
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 Individualist anarchism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Individualist anarchism is a variety of anarchism that emphasises the importance of the individual.
Several classical anarchist thinkers, such as Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Max Stirner, Dora Marsden and Albert Jay Nock, are known as individualist anarchists.
Individualist anarchists are claimed as part of their tradition by anarcho-capitalists as well as by libertarian socialists, who criticize differently the works of these authors.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/individualist_anarchism   (338 words)

  
 Individualist Anarchism vs. Libertarianism and Anarchocommunism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
So, although there was theoretical agreement on the labor theory of value between individualist anarchists and their communist cousins, the added element of respect for contract within individualist anarchism led to radically Different practical consequences.
Individualist anarchists have naively assumed that, because libertarians flatly condemned the political means, the State and politicians, this condemnation meant that libertarians had some fundamental objection to electoral politics itself.
And the onus of proof is not on the anarchist to explain why he objects to someone fighting for vast power over his life, it is on the politician and the libertarian who supports him to explain how such power is justified.
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 Individualist Anarchism vs. Libertarianism and Anarchocommunism
With individualist anarchism consent was a fairly straightforward matter, you agreed or you didn't, you said "yes" or "no." And, so long as you are saying "yes," it is in principle impossible to aggress against you.
The individualist anarchists overwhelmingly believed that voting and the holding of political office were direct violations of libertarian morality.
Individualist anarchists have naively assumed that because libertarianism flatly condemned the political means, the State and politicians, that libertarians had some objection to politics itself.
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 G.1 Are individualist anarchists anti-capitalist?
The individualist anarchists desired a society in which there would no longer be capitalists and workers, only workers.
The individualist anarchists identified capitalism as "wage slavery," (like social anarchists) because they saw that profit, rent and interest were all forms of exploitation.
The individualist anarchists viewed with horror the rise of capitalism and its imposition on an unsuspecting American population through state action.
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 Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, and Individualist Anarchism, Part One
In Boston, Tucker became politically involved with the 1872 presidential campaign of Horace Greeley, and made the acquaintance of the veteran individualist anarchists Josiah Warren and William B. Greene through attending a convention of the New England Labor Reform League in Boston, a veritable hotbed of individualists.
Individualist anarchism considered this concept to be a direct extension of self ownership.
Liberty served as a clearing house for contemporary individualist periodicals, with Tucker ever alert to the appearance of a relevant new journal in America or abroad, ever poised to jump on the deviations of an established one.
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 G.4 Why do social anarchists reject individualist anarchism?
Therefore, social anarchists favour direct actions, such as the occupation of workplaces, picketing, etc., irrespective of whether such measures are desired by the boss.
In addition, even assuming a fully individualist economy, co-operatives would still be controlled or influenced by market forces, which would drive them to increase working hours, create a division of labour, and implement a host of other dehumanising working practices in order to compete successfully against other co-operatives, and thus to "survive" economically.
However, while social anarchists disagree with the proposals of individualist anarchists, we do still consider them to be a form of anarchism -- one with many flaws and one perhaps more suited to an earlier age when capitalism was less developed and its impact upon society far less than it is now.
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 Voluntaryism In The European Anarchist Tradition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anarchists of whatever persuasion always have and always will view the State as a criminal institution, as a band of thieves and robbers who violate the person and property rights of their victims.
Many anarchists participated in syndicalist unions, and in fact it was their participation which largely prevented these unions from becoming subsidiary to the political parties in their respective countries.
Their justification was simply that if the anarchists did not take a role in the Republican government, a dictatorship worse than Russia would result and that trip prospects of a fascist regime were more unacceptable to them than the act of collaboration with the existing government.
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 G.1 Are individualist anarchists anti-capitalist?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pendant que Tucker discutait, les anarchistes ont réalisé "le fait qu'une classe des hommes sont dépendante pour leur vie sur la vente de leur travail, alors qu'une autre classe des hommes sont allégées de la nécessité du travail en étant légalement favorisé pour vendre quelque chose qui n'est pas de travail.
Les anarchistes d'individualiste se sont opposés au capitalisme (comme les anarchistes sociaux) parce qu'ils ont vu que le bénéfice, le loyer et l'intérêt étaient toutes les formes d'exploitation.
Par conséquent, comme les anarchistes sociaux, les anarchistes d'individualiste ont vu leurs idées en tant que des moyens vers l'égalité.
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 Anarchist Theory FAQ Version 5.2
The individualist anarchists are inclined to maintain private property as a necessary condition of individual independence, without fully answering the question of how property could be maintained without courts and police.
Anarchists of all varieties would reject this argument; sometimes claiming that the critic misunderstands their position, other times that the critic's assumptions are too pessimistic.
Anarchists' supposed unwillingness to use force in any circumstance is only one reason why they have been widely perceived as utopian.
www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/anarfaq.htm   (17216 words)

  
 Individualist anarchism - Wikipedia
There are several classical anarchist thinkers, such as Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner and Max Stirner, who are known as individualist anarchists.
Anarcho-capitalists appreciate the emphasis given by these thinkers on individual rights and liberty, and on market-based approaches rather than collectivism; they agree with Bastiat's responses to Proudhon, which made even Proudhon modify his position with time.
Modern individualist anarchists tend to tell both libertarian socialists and anarcho-capitalists to stop arguing just leave each other be, for in a free society, each and every one would live under the system one prefers, and experience would teach every individual which system he personally prefers to live in.
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 Bublos.com: Compare Book Prices ›› Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908) - Frank H. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Liberty was a magazine featuring some of the outstanding anarchist thinkers in America at the turn of the century.
The chapters are divided into four sections: political theory, economic theories and reforms, social implications, and strategies of individualist anarchism.
The Individualist Anarchists is not merely of historical interest, but offers a fundamental critique of government and authority - one that remains a relevant part of today's libertarian movement.
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Some of the differences between communist and individualist anarchists seem to be more of a cultural than economic nature.
While the anarchists of old often argued fervently over ideological differences (Tucker and Johann Most refused to recognize one another as "true" anarchists), a mutual admiration frequently existed between the communist and individualist camps.
Tucker was an admirer of the European anarchists Proudhon and Bakunin and translated their works into English and his anarchist journal, Liberty, published the writings not only of anarcho-socialists but also of outright Fabians or Marxists, such as George Bernard Shaw.
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 Section G - Is individualist anarchism capitalistic?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
G.1.1 Why is the social context important in evaluating Individualist Anarchism?
G.2.1 What about their support of the free market?
G.4 Why do social anarchists reject individualist anarchism's ideas?
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The ray of sun is: that no single opinion dominates this book, that it is refreshingly diverse.
Anarchists in this volume emerge as political freethinkers, people of a courageous honesty who debate and exchange powerful ideas on the topics concerning social beings.
When closing the book, wonder is in the wind...one ponders Mencken's germane analogy of politics to religion and the poplular participation of the masses in the exercise of control.
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 Find in a Library: The individualist anarchists : a critique of liberalism
Find in a Library: The individualist anarchists : a critique of liberalism
The individualist anarchists : a critique of liberalism
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 Amazon.ca: Books: The Individualist Anarchists: A Critique of Liberalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Amazon.ca: Books: The Individualist Anarchists: A Critique of Liberalism
Gary Kline has recently received his doctorate in government from the University of Texas at Austin.
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 Wendy McElroy.com: A site for individualist feminism and individualist anarchism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An individualist feminist anthology, edited by Wendy McElroy.
An index of books on individualist feminism and libertarianism that are available on-line.
...the home for individualist feminism on the net.
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 Brooks (1994) The Individualist anarchists: An anthology of Liberty (1881-1908)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brooks (1994) The Individualist anarchists: An anthology of Liberty (1881-1908)
The Individualist anarchists: An anthology of Liberty (1881-1908)
Anarchism; Anarchists; History; United States; Liberty (Boston, Mass.)
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