Anarcho-Individualism

Anarcho-Individualism
Basic Information
Aliases	Individualist Anarchism AnInd IndAn Lifestyle Anarchism (by Bookchin Communalism)
Character Information
Likes	Self-rule
Dislikes	Collectivism

Anarcho-Individualism, or AnInd for short, is an economically variable (although usually left leaning) and culturally progressive anarchist ideology that emphasizes the individual and the will of the individual over external determinants like society, groups, tradition and ideologies, seeing the abolition of the state as the fullest realization of individual liberty. He believes that without a 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 while social anarchism has been the dominant form of anarchism, emerging in the late 19th century as a distinction from individualist anarchism after Anarcho-Communism replaced collectivist anarchism as the dominant tendency.

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 Behaviour

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!

Relationships

Friends

• Anarcho-Capitalism - Not sure if I'm a fan of capitalism but I admire your passion for individualism.
• Anarcho-Communism - I'm a little skeptical about this whole communism thing but you seem to care about individual liberty like I do.
• Anarcho-Nihilism - You get me.
• File:Ego.png Egoism - STIRNER GANG, but you call things "spook" too much.
• Mutualism - One of my best friends, you seem to have the best system for individualism.

Frenemies

• Classical Liberalism - Our ideologies come from similar ways of thought, but I'll only be your friend if you reject the state and all those other meaningless social constructs.
• Capitalism - NO! Well, maybe... My son, Ancap, really likes you!
• Anarcho-Collectivism - Collectivism is incompatible with anarchism! However, we both like to smash the status quo together (but I’m still not convinced he is a real anarchist!).

Enemies

• Marxism–Leninism - Collectivist.
• Fascism - Anti-individualist.
• Hive-Mind Collectivism - Your existence disturbs me.
• Death Worship - What the actual fuck?!

Further Information

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 Tucker
• The Unconstitutionality of Slavery by Lysander Spooner
• Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock
• The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner

Wikipedia

• Individualist anarchism
• Individualist Anarchism in Europe
• William Godwin
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• John Henry Mackay
• Lev Chernyi
• Oscar Wilde
• Individualist Anarchism in the United States
• Lysander Spooner
• Benjamin Tucker
• Josiah Warren
• Henry David Thoreau
• William Batchelder Greene
• Stephen Pearl Andrews

Online Communities

• r/AnarchoIndividualism