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The Great Anarchists

The Great Anarchists

By: crispin sartwell
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Twenty to thirty minutes each through the greatest philosophers and theorists of anarchism, including Josiah Warren, Peter Kropotkin, and David Graeber.

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  • Max Stirner and Egoist Anarchism

    Max Stirner and Egoist Anarchism
    Nov 25 2025

    A wild and bizarre genius whose one book garnered momentary attention, especially from Marx and Engels. He's very closely connected to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, in my view.

    I quote a blog entry from Alexander Green:

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-green-stirner-and-marx
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    29 mins
  • Lysander Spooner Kicks Your Ass

    Lysander Spooner Kicks Your Ass
    Nov 20 2025

    From basic American or Lockean or classical liberal values, Spooner (1808-1887) proves that anarchism follows. Proves it, I say. The killerest of the American individualists. If we have equal unalienable rights, anarchism follows immediately and obviously.

    lysanderspooner.org
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    30 mins
  • Henry David Thoreau: State and Slavery

    Henry David Thoreau: State and Slavery
    Nov 13 2025

    Our best writer, maybe. The assertion that he's an (individualist) anarchist is based on "Civil Disibedience," but Thoreay expresses these positions throughout his authorship.
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    29 mins
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