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| | The Individualist Sentiment, by Pierre Lemieux |
 | | Although it seems safe to assume that the individualist sentiment, the theory of individualism, and the experience of living in a society based on such theory, are mutually reinforcing, the relations between these kinds of individualism are not always straightforward. |
 | | In an individualist political system, individuals are free to organize their lives according to non-individualist values (this is much less true, mutatis mutandis, in a socialist system); and, to make an understatement, some individualists are not lucky enough to live in individualist societies. |
 | | Similarly, a sentimental individualist will normally believe in political individualism, except perhaps if he holds the "aristocratic-individualist" view that only a chosen few are able to look after their own welfare; even then, though, he may want to hedge his bets lest he would, under a different system, be considered not part of them. |
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