Individualist anarchism

Individualist anarchism refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and their will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems. Individualist anarchism is not a single philosophy but refers to a group of individualistic philosophies that sometimes are in conflict. Thereafter, it expanded through Europe and the United States. 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."

Among the early influences on individualist anarchism were William Godwin,Josiah Warren ("sovereignty of the individual"), Max Stirner (egoism),Lysander Spooner ("natural law"), Pierre Joseph Proudhon (mutualism), Henry David Thoreau (transcendentalism),Herbert Spencer ("law of equal liberty"), and Anselme Bellegarrigue.

Individualist anarchism of different kinds have a few things in common. These are:

1. The concentration on the individual and their will in preference to any construction such as morality, ideology, social custom, religion, metaphysics, ideas or the will of others.

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