Nesrine BouguerraIndividualist anarchism derives mainly from liberalism and superiority of the human being. According to Max Stirner , Individual self as at the centre of the moral universe, and as a result, a human being should simply acts as he/she chooses without any consideration for laws, social conventions, religious or moral principles. It rejects both the communal and capitalist economical agendas. Individualist anarchism was first originated in the United States in the 1800s. The concept of individualist beliefs was engaged by Josiah Warren through social projects in order to challenge the government in issues such as: interest, rent and profit. The outcomes of such beliefs can only be achieved when taking individualism to the extremes. Clearly, the belief in the superiority and importance of human beings lie at the heart of liberalism as an ideology. In the classical liberal view, individualism when pushed to the extreme may affect freedoms negatively, thus each individual possesses a valuable sovereignty and dignity. From such belief, any opposition is considered a certain threat and evil. In other words, law and governments cannot preserve human sovereignty therefore they must be abolished.
Although individualist anarchism may seem to be similar to liberalism, there are various differences in ideological beliefs between them. Liberals for example, believe that national states are undoubtedly necessary to maintain individual freedom and prevent self seeking individuals from using violence and illegal power against others through law which existed to protect these freedoms positively. Individualist anarchists in contrast, see that governments are unnecessary since individuals are able to stabilise and behave themselves naturally even during dispute times. Liberals also believe that private organisations are important in enhancing civil liberties and restricting governmental power because they are considered as a tactical system checks and balances between the different political institutions; Utopians believe that state unity is necessary as a power over various political elites and bureaucratic groups. Therefore, anarchists reject any forms of existing political institution as, according to them, they will only offend and curb the individual`s liberty. Unlikely, self seeking or egoist individuals see human nature as it was employed by Hobbes and Locke. They thus believe that uncontrolled selfish form of individualism is the perfect representative of freedom.. These ideas reflect the ideas of free market liberalism as liberals see the market as an absolute system of producing goods and life necessities, but stress on the fact that has be limited and not controlled by governments. On one side, Anarcho-capitalists ignore the idea of limiting the market access and argue that such mechanism must fulfill all human needs. However; an established free market is always seen as the best form of regulating selfish individuals. When achieving an anarchic society, anarchists believe that human beings will tend to seek protecting among each other in private organisations rather than addressing to the states or law. In addition, Anarcho-capitalists see profit making organisations such as: banks have to increase competition between them and present better quality and consumer services. Likely, anarchist individuals call for a new banking and currency system, free from governmental monopoly on the interests of customers due to the fact that such credit institutions would be able to issue their own form of money and create their own management programmes; anarchists tried to set up a people`s bank with free credit to show the way for a better transformed economy. This, from the anarchist perspective, will give individuals wide range of choices thus, is considered the best form of policing system. Besides what has been addressed above, anarchist individuals believe that the use of force is unacceptable in any situation and states must not obligate education or taxes. They also see that any government use laws and force to serve the interests of its holders. Therefore, human beings must have a freedom of accommodation, work and association which cannot be controlled or curbed by others; Freedom can only exist in a society where there is no compulsion of any kind.