/anarcho/ - Anarchism Board

This is painfully simplistic, but not exactly just 'marxists full of shit.'

From what I understand, individualist anarchism can be seen in many different ways - and of course, in applying the philosophies of individualist anarchism, it should come as no surprise. However, all individualist anarchist ideas seem to have a few things in common, namely that the experiences and ideologies of the individual should come before anything else. Social constructions such as morality, religion, custom, ect. should all be ignored by the individual, and they should pursue what they think is right alone. Similar, in a way, to the philosophy of existentialism, although Sartre emphasized that all choices should be made with the question 'What if EVERYONE did what I am doing?' while Individualist Anarchism seems to be entirely misanthropic.

>>8316
What if an individualist anarchist are those current lifestyle type anarchists?

Like the ones who live "off the grid" with little social co-operation?

Freedom also means to abstain from society. So the way I look at it, Individual anarchists are fine.

>>8317

"Lifestyle anarchists" are a somewhat recent development. Although given the postulates of individualist anarchism, I am not surprised to see them go to the lifestyle path.

Although the pseudohobos that eat off garbage aren't even individualists, they are post-left/post-anarchists.

I guess you could say that "lifestyle anarchism" encompasses post-leftism, primitivism, ayncraps, and those very autistic strands of individualism like OP describes.
Though I hear individualist anarchists can be pro-communism (e.g. Emma Goldman).

>>8317
Oh, absolutely. Of course, that kind of thinking does not pair well with statist marxist views.

>>8317
I think back then both individualists and collectivists were kind of "lifestylist". They started distancing themselves because individualists kept committing crimes and assassinating the rich and they thought it was bad PR.

>achieve a mutualistic, laissez-faire capitalism to promote completely free competition
You'd think Marxists would understand the definition of capitalism and how you can have a free market without capitalist methods of worker subjugation and property hoarding.

>>8313

>Though I feel it's just marxists being full of shit.

Obviously if they're Marxists they're full of shit.

For example

>However, all individualist anarchist ideas seem to have a few things in common, namely that the experiences and ideologies of the individual should come before anything else. Social constructions such as morality, religion, custom, ect. should all be ignored by the individual, and they should pursue what they think is right alone. Similar, in a way, to the philosophy of existentialism, although Sartre emphasized that all choices should be made with the question 'What if EVERYONE did what I am doing?' while Individualist Anarchism seems to be entirely misanthropic.

This is pretty much what any libcom fag will vomit up whenever they encounter any kind of nonlibcom. And it's complete bullshit and just plain wrong.

The point of individualism is to secure an equality of rights for every last individual. The reason for which is to secure a healthy community where hierarchy or mob rule doesn't go around riding roughshod over the little guy.

You get a wide range of thought with individualism because individuals happen to be human beings. And they come with all the diversity that you get with humanity. So obviously you do get things like freegans and neohobos and lone wolf terrorist assholes and even capitalists (which is the libcom term for anyone who isn't opposed to a market no matter what their philosophy is)

But don't forget that the original individualists were in fact socialist. Their thought was that individualism was the only means whereby labour could secure it's just wage. Benjamin tucker went so far as to translate and publish the work of proudhon in English to promote mutualism in the US.

These are ideas that predate marx and bakunin and all the poisonous platformist cancer bullshit that is eating away at any possibility of an actual anarchist movement of any kind.

Individualism is a philosophy of community to a far greater extent than any platformist idea of "there's only one brand of anarchism take it or leave it" simply because it is a philosophy whereby the individual is liberated to find or to make their own place in the community and the community is free to accept the individual with the least possible amount of precondition.

Libcom faggotry leaves no room for acceptance of the other or even tolerance of the other. The other must conform or die. Those are the only options.

Take it or leave it

>>8333
I like you.
Never understood the freegan hate. I was taught early in life that free is never bad, but odds are, it ain't good either.

these marxist know nothing of anarchism(deliberately) there will be ayncraps who call themselves Individualists but Individualist anarchism is not capitalism and doesn't mean markets though it can

>>8437
You can never count on individualist anarchists.
If it's in their individual interest to betray the revolution, they will.

>>8343
i like you. maybe i liked you first.

>>8437
i don't think these marxists have even actually read marx. there was some anon who hung around a while back who might possibly have read bakunin. but really however many platformists there are here there's only one in the whole crowd who ever read a book about anything i'm pretty sure.

and i'm pretty sure it's not >>8438

I've read a couple of books. Though I have a bigger interest in Kropotkin than Bakunin.

>>8461

I like that kropotkin makes a good case for cooperation as a product of nature. I totally agree with that

>>8461
>>8463

Me again

Actually you should read Pierre clastres "society against the state." If you like kropotkin I think you'd like that.

Just Google it there're free pdf's out there