At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

Philosopher Max Stirner, in his book The Ego and Its Own, was the first philosopher to call himself an egoist, though his writing makes clear that he desired not a new idea of morality ( ethical egoism ), but rather a rejection of morality ( amoralism ), as a nonexistent and limiting “ spook ”; for this, Stirner has been described as the first individualist anarchist.

Some commentators do not identify Proudhon as an individualist anarchist due to his preference for association in large industries, rather than individual control.

As Ossinsky in particular argued, " one-man management " ( rather than the democratic factory committees workers had established and Lenin abolished ) and the other impositions of capitalist discipline would stifle the active participation of workers in the organisation of production ; Taylorism converted workers into the appendages of machines, and piece work imposed individualist rather than collective rewards in production so instilling petty bourgeois values into workers.

Many social, individualist and mutualist anarchists however sometimes prefer reformist approaches rather than open violence and would only advocate such under extreme circumstances.

As Raymond Chandler's protagonist Philip Marlowe — immortalized by actor Humphrey Bogart in the movie adaptation ( 1946 ) of the novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 )— admits to his client, General Sternwood, he finds it rather tiresome, as an individualist, to fit into the extensive set of rules and regulations for police detectives:

* Deaf culture in the United States tends to be collectivist rather than individualist ; culturally Deaf people value the group.

The founders of the United States founded the country upon classical liberal individualist principles rather than ethnic nationalist principles.

It seems at some points in his work that we are all part of a greater construct thus taking a collectivist approach rather than having an individualist perspective.

He provides evidence to dispute Bookchin's association of " terrorism " with individualist rather than social anarchism.

Allan Massie thinks his 1981 – 82 international season was his best, and describes him as " an individualist rather than a link-man ".

Kevin Carson has praised Lum's fusion of individualist laissez-faire economics with radical labor activism as " creative " and described him as " more significant than any in the Boston group ".

They, as well as contemporary individualist anarchists in that tradition, hold that it is unethical to charge a higher price for a commodity than the amount of labor required to produce it.

There has historically been a somewhat antagonistic relationship between these two communities, largely based on the generally liberal / progressive social policy tendencies of the Jewish community with the more ' rugged individualist ' leanings of the American Protestant communities, more so than any theological dispute.

For instance, studies have shown that subjects in collectivist cultures conform to others ' social proof more often than those in individualist cultures.

Sebastian Faure had strong contacts in Spain and so his proposal had more impact in spanish anarchists than the Dielo Truda platform even though individualist anarchist influence in Spain was less strong than it was in France.

" According to Rudolph Rocker, the American individualist anarchists were " influenced in their intellectual development much more by the principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence than by those of any of the representatives of libertarian socialism in Europe.

He is an individualist but not an anarchist ; ;

* 1864 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer ( d. 1933 )

Benjamin R. Tucker, a famous 19th century individualist anarchist, held that " if the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny.

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster, american individualist anarchism " stresses the isolation of the individual — his right to his own tools, his mind, his body, and to the products of his labor.

Such individualist anarchist tendencies include French illegalism and Italian anti-organizational insurrectionarism.

Another important tendency within individualist anarchist currents emphasizes individual subjective exploration and defiance of social conventions.

In the particular case of spanish individualist anarchist Miguel Gimenez Igualada, he went from illegalist practice in his youth towards a pacifist position later in his life.

William Godwin can be considered an individualist anarchist and philosophical anarchist who was influenced by the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, and developed what many consider the first expression of modern anarchist thought.

Godwin's political views were diverse and do not perfectly agree with any of the ideologies that claim his influence ; writers of the Socialist Standard, organ of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, consider Godwin both an individualist and a communist ; anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard did not regard Godwin as being in the individualist camp at all, referring to him as the " founder of communist anarchism "; and historian Albert Weisbord considers him an individualist anarchist without reservation.

One member of this commune was Josiah Warren ( 1798 – 1874 ), considered to be the first individualist anarchist.

" Some consider Proudhon to be an individualist anarchist, while others regard him to be a social anarchist.

Max Stirner was a Hegelian philosopher whose " name appears with familiar regularity in historically oriented surveys of anarchist thought as one of the earliest and best-known exponents of individualist anarchism.

Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ) was an important early influence in individualist anarchist thought in the United States and Europe.

Also M. E. Lazarus was an important American individualist anarchist who promoted free love.

The Brazilian individualist anarchist Maria Lacerda de Moura lectured on topics such as education, women's rights, free love, and antimilitarism.

She also wrote for the Spanish individualist anarchist magazine Al Margen alongside Miguel Gimenez Igualada

The individualist anarchist George MacDonald was a co-editor of Freethought and, for a time, The Truth Seeker.

In the mid-1950s Rothbard wrote an article under a pseudonym, saying that " we are not anarchists ... but not archists either ... Perhaps, then, we could call ourselves by a new name: nonarchist ," concerned with differentiating himself from communist and socialistic economic views of other anarchists ( including the individualist anarchists of the 19th century ).

Voltairine de Cleyre's political perspective shifted throughout her life, eventually leading her to become an outspoken proponent of " anarchism without adjectives ," a doctrine, according to historian George Richard Esenwein, " without any qualifying labels such as communist, collectivist, mutualist, or individualist.

Her early allegiance to individualism can be seen in the way she differentiated herself from Emma Goldman: " Miss Goldman is a communist ; I am an individualist.

The main purpose behind the synthesis was that the anarchist movement in most countries was divided into three main tendencies: communist anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, and individualist anarchism and so such an organization could contain anarchists of these 3 tendencies very well.

Anarchism without adjectives ( from the Spanish ""), in the words of historian George Richard Esenwein, " referred to an unhyphenated form of anarchism, that is, a doctrine without any qualifying labels such as communist, collectivist, mutualist, or individualist.

The main purpose behind the synthesis was that the anarchist movement in most countries was divided into three main tendencies: communist anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, and individualist anarchism and so such an organization could contain anarchists of this 3 tendencies very well.

The main purpose behind the synthesis was that the anarchist movement in most countries was divided into three main tendencies: communist anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, and individualist anarchism and so such an organization could contain anarchists of these 3 tendencies very well.

Most Jewish anarchists supported anarcho-syndicalism and communist anarchism, while a few were individualist anarchists.

In an 1894 article defending Emma Goldman, she states, " Miss Goldman is a communist ; I am an individualist.

The Anarchy Archives contains works collected from the following authors, representing many different veins of anarchist and socialist thought including individualist anarchism, syndicalism, and communist anarchism: