Lettre de cachet

This political philosophy sees in any form of being able such as the State, the Religion - but also in all kinds of hierarchical organizations or collective organizations - a not-legitimate and oppressive authority and thus the enemy par excellence of individual freedom. The individualistic anarchists privilege libertarian association between individuals.

Within the Anarchism, one often opposes the Individualisme to the Collectivisme.

These oppositions must however be moderate because they are not necessarily contradictory. Certain anarchistic individualists, such Henry Sisly, Libertad, Alexandra David-Néel and other individualists, will be also communist, just like certain anarchistic Communists will be individualistic.

The individualistic anarchists refuse the design of Propriété, that it is private or collective, but recognize the concept of possession as defined by P.J Proudhon. They are thus opposed only so that they qualify naked property (the latter term not being to include/understand within the meaning of the Civil code French), and thus with very returned of loan - such as the benefit or the rents - while recognizing with each one the right to have its housing or to work its ground. It is in this direction the use alone which founds and legitimates the possession.

This original design of the property/possession explains the ambiguity of the positioning of the individualistic anarchistic doctrines - but not necessarily of the individualistic anarchists - vis-a-vis the Anarchist-Communism and to the Anarchisme collectivist.

William Godwin, max Stirner and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (this last to a lesser extent) is generally regarded as the founders and the first theorists of this form of anarchism.

Historically important authors

• max Stirner (which however never asserted to be anarchistic)
• Benjamin Tucker
• John Henry Mackay
• Lysander Spooner
• Emile Armand
• Han Ryner
• Georges Palante
• Albert Libertad (although this last are defined only as " anarchiste" , estimating that anarchy is the assembly of individualism and Communism)
• Alexandra David-Néel
• Zo of Axa

Contemporary individualistic anarchists

• Bob Black
• Hakim Bey
• Jean Victor Verlinde

See too

• Libertarian Anarchism
• Individualism
• individualistic
• Libertisme
• History of the libertarian movement in France
• Liberty

External bonds

• the anarchistic article individualism on Anarchopédia
• various kinds of individualism and anarchism
• a reflection on anarchistic individualism
• On the socialist compassion, Black Sun Text, anarchist-individualist
• Site proposing of the texts resulting from anarchistic and individualistic periodicals, primarily published between 1850 and 1960

Quotations

" We are both, the State and me, of the enemies… Any State is a tyranny. " " the State never works towards but one end: to limit, connect, fix the individual, to subordinate it to an unspecified general information. "

max Stirner the Single one and its property, 1844

" anarchy it is the order, and the government the civil war. "

Anselme Bellegarrigue, 1848