Individualist anarchism

Individualist anarchism is a tradition of anarchism that places individual autonomy at its center and opposes coercive authority. Its advocates have proposed voluntary association and varied forms of self-directed economic life.

Anarchism: A political tradition that opposes hierarchical authority, especially the state, and explores forms of voluntary social organization. Individualist anarchism is one strand within the broader anarchist tradition.
William Godwin: An English political philosopher whose 1793 work argued for a society without government. His critique of political authority helped establish anarchist arguments about individual judgment.
Collectivist anarchism: An anarchist tradition that favors collective ownership and worker control of production. It gives collective control a larger role than individualist anarchist economic proposals do.
Equitable commerce: Josiah Warren’s exchange principle, which priced goods by labor time and associated costs. It was an attempt to prevent profit from arising through unequal exchange.
American libertarianism: A political movement in the United States that emphasizes individual liberty and limits on state power. Individualist anarchist ideas contributed to its debates about markets, property, and authority.
Individual liberty: The freedom of a person to act and make choices without undue interference. Individual autonomy is the tradition’s primary political value.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: A French political thinker who criticized property and developed a theory of mutualism. His mutualist economics became a major reference point for individualist anarchists.
Anarcho-communism: An anarchist theory that advocates common ownership and distribution according to need. Its rejection of private property contrasts with some individualist anarchists’ defenses of possession.
Cincinnati Time Store: Josiah Warren’s experimental shop, which opened in Cincinnati in 1827 and used labor notes for exchange. It tested equitable commerce as a working retail arrangement.
Libertarian socialism: A broad socialist tradition that seeks egalitarian social arrangements without centralized state control. Individualist anarchism overlaps with its anti-authoritarian critique but includes diverse economic views.

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