Individualist anarchism...

[Korol Aferist]

Individualist anarchism - Do you consider it to be leftist ?
Somewhere I read,"while many collectivist and individualist anarchists refer to classical individualism as a form of socialism, although, it is not socialism in the sense of collective ownership of the means of production as is commonly defined today."
But before I read somewhere someone said it's to be leftist.

[JKP]

It's leftist in that it's anti-capitalist.

Bear in mind that its main goal is to end exploitation and nothing more. Society remains for the most part unchanged.

[Korol Aferist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 6 2005, 05:01 PM
It's leftist in that it's anti-capitalist.

Bear in mind that its main goal is to end exploitation and nothing more. Society remains for the most part unchanged.
But it seems little bit like capitalism.
In Wikipedia it says,"Individualist anarchism in American is noted for its strong advocacy of the type of private property championed by Proudhon, and a competitive free market economy. Josiah Warren, who is the first individualist anarchist in the American tradition, had participated in a failed collectivist experiment headed by Robert Owen called "New Harmony" and came to the conclusion that such a system is inferior to one where individualism and private property is respected."

[JazzRemington]

Individualists like Benjamin Tucker believed Capitalism to be a state-backed monopoly and considered themselves socialists. Tucker himself said that "labor should be put in the power of its own." Warren said also that capitalism was wrong because it violated the "cost-the limit of price" idea, that the cost to bring something to the market should be the price. Individualists anarchist are pro-market, but a socialist market.