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Tucker's Liberty (1881–1908) gave the tradition its most systematic statement, identifying four monopolies (land, money, tariffs, patents) as the actual mechanism of capitalist exploitation and arguing that abolishing them would dissolve concentrated wealth without abolishing markets or private possession. The tradition shares mutualism's critique of capitalist ownership but is less concerned with the cooperative form economic life should take and more concerned with the individual's freedom from any external authority, including the social pressure of cooperative federation. It is sharply distinct from anarcho-capitalism: where Rothbard's tradition treats existing property titles and wage labor as legitimate outcomes of free exchange, individualist anarchism treats them as artifacts of the state-backed monopolies it seeks to abolish — pro-market, but anti-capitalist in the strict sense. The tradition was largely dormant in the mid-twentieth century but has been revived since the 2000s through Kevin Carson and the Center for a Stateless Society, who have extended the framework to digital labor, intellectual property, and contemporary corporate power.","19th century to present",6,"2026-04-29T04:56:32.078105+00:00",false,"political","liberty",[114,126,133,140,147],{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":116},true,{"id":117,"era":118,"name":119,"slug":120,"one_line":121,"birth_year":122,"death_year":123,"portrait_url":124,"sort_priority":125},141,"19th Century","Max Stirner","max-stirner","Max Stirner was a German egoist philosopher whose dissolution of every fixed idea into 'spooks' made him a wellspring for anarcho-individualism, Nietzsche, and radical libertarian thought",1806,1856,null,10,{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":127},{"id":128,"era":124,"name":129,"slug":130,"one_line":131,"birth_year":124,"death_year":124,"portrait_url":124,"sort_priority":132},753,"Karl Hess","karl-hess","Karl Hess was Barry Goldwater's speechwriter turned radical anti-statist libertarian, championing decentralization, community self-reliance, and freedom lived at neighborhood scale",5,{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":134},{"id":135,"era":124,"name":136,"slug":137,"one_line":138,"birth_year":124,"death_year":139,"portrait_url":124,"sort_priority":132},681,"Benjamin Tucker","benjamin-tucker","Benjamin Tucker was the leading exponent of American individualist anarchism, whose journal Liberty made the case for a stateless society built on free markets, free banking, and the abolition of monopoly privilege",1939,{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":141},{"id":142,"era":124,"name":143,"slug":144,"one_line":145,"birth_year":124,"death_year":146,"portrait_url":124,"sort_priority":132},700,"Samuel Edward Konkin III","samuel-edward-konkin-iii","Samuel Edward Konkin III was the left-libertarian anarchist who founded agorism, arguing that black and gray markets — not electoral politics — were the path to a stateless society",2004,{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":148},{"id":149,"era":124,"name":150,"slug":151,"one_line":152,"birth_year":124,"death_year":153,"portrait_url":124,"sort_priority":132},702,"Voltairine de Cleyre","voltairine-de-cleyre","Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist and feminist who championed individual liberty against state, church, and marriage alike, defending a pluralistic 'anarchism without adjectives'",1912,[155],{"archetype_slug":74,"connection_sentence":156},"Individualist anarchism fuses the sovereign individual with markets stripped of capitalist privilege — the Tucker–Spooner line that names land, credit, and intellectual-property monopolies as the real machinery of extraction. Carson and today's left-libertarians extend it into a freed-market anti-capitalism that dissolves concentrated wealth without abolishing exchange.",[158,160,161,162],{"archetype_slug":5,"shared_thinker_count":159},1,{"archetype_slug":68,"shared_thinker_count":159},{"archetype_slug":95,"shared_thinker_count":159},{"archetype_slug":77,"shared_thinker_count":159}]