Tag Archives: Individualism

acs26-minorities-versus-majorities

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Minorities versus Majorities (1910)

Emma Goldman

“That is just it, the majority cannot reason.” This provocative essay on the compacting function of majority-rules politics, and the importance and creative role of minority ideas, unpopular actions and individual dissent, began as a lecture on Emma Goldman’s speaking tours; in 1910 she incorporated it into her collection of essays, ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS (Mother Earth Publishing Association). Continue reading →

acs24-to-grow-a-free-society

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To Grow a Free Society (1902)

Celia B. Whitehead & Albina L. Washburn & A. LeRoy Loubal & Ross Winn

This booklet brings together a short conversation on Anarchism and Socialism, Liberty and Equality that appeared in the pages of the anarchist-communist newspaper FREE SOCIETY in early 1902. Ross Winn and A. LeRoy Loubal open with intriguing developments of the ideal of individual liberty, individual economic independence and common, co-operative wealth without voting, elections, the “central hand” of institutional machinery, or political government. In the central essay, the state-socialist and feminist Celia B. Whitehead challenges them for their plans for achieving equality without institutionalized government, asking, “How Will a Free Society Come, and How Will It Operate?” In replies, Winn, Loubal, and the feminist-Anarchist writer Albina L. Washburn each offer a different vision, one rooted in education and voluntary cooperation, one in resistance and decentralization, and one in mutualism and a strategy of counter-economics. Continue reading →

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They Who Marry Do Ill (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre

“The question now becomes: What is the growing ideal of human society, unconsciously indicated and un­con­scious­ly discerned and illuminated? By all the readings of progress, this indication appears to be the free individual; a society whose economic, political, social and … Continue reading →

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The Subsidy of History (2001/2002)

Kevin Carson

This article — excerpted from Kevin Carson’s groundbreaking essay “The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand” (2001) — examines capitalist eco­nom­ic privilege through the lens of the historical dispossession of workers and peasants, and the radically deformed markets dynamics struct­ur­ed by these systematic, consolidating … Continue reading →

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The Relation of Anarchism to Organization (1899)

Fred Schulder

“Organization has been defined as the taking on of organic structure. . . . Evolution is a series of changes, under natural law, from a diffused, uniform and indefinite arrangement, to a concentrated, multiform and definite arrangement. . . . … Continue reading →

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Mutualist Methods (1896, 1927)

Clarence L. Swartz & Francis D. Tandy

“The ballot is only a bullet in another form. An appeal to the majority is an appeal to brute force. . . . Instead of actually fighting over questions, it is more economical to count noses and see which side … Continue reading →

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I Welcome Disorder (1911)

Jo. Labadie

The Anarchist press of the late 19th and early 20th century published more than just a series of newspapers, tracts, pamphlets and polemics. Besides analytical journals like Liberty and Mother Earth, and besides radical papers like The Alarm and The … Continue reading →

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Market Anarchy Vs. Corporate Power (1899)

Benjamin Tucker

The classic Market Anarchist take on corporate power and the political privileges that prop it up — Tucker’s talk at the Conference on Trusts by the Chicago Civic Federation in September 1899. The trusts, instead of growing out of competition as generally supposed have been made possible only by the absence of competition, by the obstacles placed in the way of competition by the denial of liberty, the suppression or restriction of competition, the legal creation of monopolies. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Feminism — Can This Marriage Be Saved? (2005)

Roderick Long and Charles Johnson

The case for a radical libertarian feminism — a critique of the state and of patriarchy which understands both as parts of an interlocking system of oppression, and which draws on the insights of both radical libertarianism, and radical feminism, … Continue reading →

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Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin (2008)

Charles Johnson

Libertarians and anarchists all agree on the need for a free society, based on principles of individual liberty and free association. But once we are free, what kind of associations should we voluntarily form? Should we see our opposition to state coercion as a thin commitment, which can be happily joined to absolutely any set of values and projects, as long as they are carried out non-coercively? Should anti-statists happily accept any social arrangement, as long as it’s peaceful? Or should we see opposition to state coercion as one strand among others in a thick bundled of intertwined social commitments, aiming to resist multiple, interlocking systems of oppression? Continue reading →