Anarcho-Individualism

"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them."

Lysander Spooner

Anarcho-Individualism, or AnInd for short, is an economically variable and culturally variable anarchist ideology that emphasizes the individual and the will of the individual over external determinants - such as: society, groups, tradition, and ideologies - seeing the abolition of the state as the fullest realization of individual liberty. He believes that without any government, individuals will pursue their personal objectives and work together in mutual self-interest to create a stable and harmonious anarchist society.

History

Within anarchism, individualist anarchism is primarily a literary phenomenon since social anarchism has been the dominant form of anarchism, emerging in the late 19th century as a distinction from individualist anarchism, after Anarcho-Communism had replaced Collectivist Anarchism as the dominant tendency.

Boston Anarchism

Flag of Ego-Mutualism

One of the most well-known individualist anarchist scenes originates from the Boston area in the United States. Thinkers who came from this scene had primarily been influenced by Mutualism, although some had incorporated Anarcho-Egoism, with Benjamin Tucker combining the aforementioned two to create Ego-Mutualism, and others - like Henry David Thoreau - would go on to influence Eco-Anarchism and Anarcho-Pacifism.

Stirnerite Egoism

WIP

Foundations

Individualist Anarchism has been popularised and heavily influenced by the ideas/works of European philosophers William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Max Stirner, and American philosophers Benjamin Tucker, Josiah Warren, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Lysander Spooner.

Personality and Behavior

AnInd is often depicted as passionate about individual liberty and can be shown to have a disdain for any sort of authority or hierarchies, as well as having a strong sense of self and resistance to tradition and conformity. AnInd often prefers to "go his own way" as opposed to letting his ideas be influenced by those around him and usually keeps himself busy with his own affairs. Although he is sometimes willing to work with his fellow anarchists if it benefits him to do so, he is equally likely to be seen debating with them, keeping true to his ideological convictions of true individual liberty.

How to Draw

Flag of Anarcho-Individualism

1. Draw a ball;
2. draw a line in near-black diagonally across the ball;
3. fill the bottom half of the ball with the same near-black color, and fill the top half with sky blue or turquoise;
4. draw an uppercase letter "I" in the middle of the ball, in opposite colors to the ball (i.e. black on turquoise, turquoise on black);
5. add the eyes, and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#202020	rgb(32, 32, 32)
	Turquoise	#00FFDA	rgb(0, 255, 218)

Relationships

Friends

• Mutualism - The original anarchist, and my economics is basically your economics.
• Anarcho-Egoism - My European variant took a lot from you, but I'm not sure about immoralism. I just want my rights.
• Post-Leftism - You truly understand the lumpenproletariat fight is one for self-determination from the tyranny of the majority and rightfully call out many of the left who have become the very statists they claimed to oppose.
• Post-Colonial Anarchism - Fellow colonized lumpens. Fighting against the will of the authoritative majority and not assimilating into their imperialistic tyranny is based. (Stop calling me a 'white anarchist,' though.)
• Autarchy - Only the self may rule their own person.
• Queer Anarchism - Even if most of you are a bit too idpol obsessed, and many of your modern followers on social media take a very moralistic and puritanical approach, I'll always be for the sexual freedom of any consenting adults no matter what.
• Anarcho-Pacifism - True peace emerges from individuality and respect towards others lives, not from tyrannical silencing.
• Post-Anarchism - I don't get all of this postmodernist chaos, but I guess we can be friends.
• Agorism - Never give up the freedom of exchange, both to statist cucks as well as corporate fascists.
• Agrarian Anarchism - Small farm, homesteading, seems like based way to run away from tyranny without engaging into politics as well as violent revolution.
• Autonomism and Communization Theory - Yes! Workers' autonomy! Ignore that organizational nonsense and let's dance.
• Voluntaryism - Yes! Everything should be voluntary and up to me!
• Progressive Conservatism - Culture should be voluntary, whatever and whichever lifestyle I choose will ALWAYS be my choice.

Frenemies

• Anarcho-Capitalism - I try hard to admire your passion for individualism, freedom, and statelessness, but I'm extremely skeptical of your property worship. Wage labor is just a neologism for slavery and feudalism, it has nothing to do with voluntariness, not even saying about Hoppe and Block who are reinforcing totalitarianism in all of their wicked theories.
• Anarcho-Communism - I'm a little skeptical about this whole communism thing, but a fair portion of you seem to care about individual liberty as I do, at least in theory. But what if I wanna start a business?
• Anarcho-Collectivism - Collectivism is incompatible with anarchism! However, we both like to smash the status quo together. And at least the collectivism part of your name isn't 100% literal.
• Anarcho-Nihilism - You get me, I think... wait, what do you mean "atomization?" You seem to give up your dreams and values towards the path of negation.
• Classical Liberalism - Our ideologies come from similar ways of thought, but I'll only be your friend if you reject the state and all of this meaningless social contract delusion. Aside from all of this, you're the one who started the whole lib thing, which lead to me.
• Illegalism - Chill man, freedom doesn't mean you can murder and steal for no reason.
• Civil Libertarianism - I wouldn't really consider rights given by the state to be true freedom, but at least you try.
• Insurrectionary Anarchism - You can take your insurrection too far, to place where you don't fight government but violate individuals.
• Anarcho-Conservatism - If personal, then based; if forced on others, it's an oxymoron. Also Orwell was based.
• Anarcho-Primitivism - We laughed, we scapegoated, but looking through all of modern society, it really looks like a reasonable solution. But why can't I have my robot arms if it makes MY life better?

Enemies

• Marxism–Leninism - An exert collectivist; you claim to hate imperialism and slavery yet you are exemplar of imperialism and slavery under the guise of "socialism". Curious.
• Fascism - The bundle of tyranny!
• Capitalism - Coward collectivist that said "private property" and then suppress individuality of workers for "efficiency".
• Marxism - Collectivist without mask, literally kill all bourgeoisie without any second thoughts and can't accept disagreement to the point of kicking Bakunin out.
• Libertarian Municipalism - Collectivist in an anarchist mask; just because we don't want to follow you doesn't make us not anarchists or anti-revolutionary. Also, Bob Black wrecked your ass.
• Christian Theocracy - You want to limit the freedom of individuals not only by enforced morality but also by state.
• Ochlocracy - Literally tyranny of the majority!
• Ingsoc & Illuminatism - Worst nightmare that could ever happen.
• Communalism - I will not give you my personal property.
• Catholic Theocracy - An entire pseudo-religion built on absolute obedience towards centralized, oligarchical institution with total control over all your ways of thinking. You are pure evil and have nothing to do with God.
• Avaritionism - As far as I stay away from using violence against other individuals, the only people I actually support being killed are greedy pedophilic psychopaths like you.

Further Information

For overlapping political theory see:

Anarcho-Egoism, Mutualism, Left-Wing Market Anarchism, Agorism, Synthesis Anarchism, Philosophical Anarchism, Post-Left Anarchy, Post-Anarchism, Autarchy, Queer Anarchism

Literature

• No Treason by Lysander Spooner
• Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One: A Fragmentary Exposition of Philosophical Anarchism by Benjamin R. Tucker
• Individual Liberty by Benjamin R. Tucker (same book as above, but edited)
• The Unconstitutionality of Slavery by Lysander Spooner
• Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock
• The Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner
• The Production of Security by Gustave de Molinari

Wikipedia

• Individualist anarchism
• William Godwin
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• John Henry Mackay
• Lev Chernyi
• Oscar Wilde
• Lysander Spooner
• Benjamin R. Tucker
• Josiah Warren
• Henry David Thoreau
• William Batchelder Greene
• Stephen Pearl Andrews

By Region

• Europe
• United States

Online Communities

• r/AnarchoIndividualism

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