15. From Voluntary Socialism | Individualism: A Reader
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Date: 2015-06-30

Voluntary Socialism (Denver: Francis D. Tandy Publisher, 1896)

Francis Dashwood Tandy, like many writers of his era, sometimes used the word "socialism" to mean a system of voluntary social cooperation, or "voluntaryism," in contrast to "state socialism." Here Tandy presents a theory fo egoism that was based on the ideas of Max Stirner. Contrary to many negative interpretations of "survival of the fittest," Tandy maintains that this process requires a high degree of individual freedom and social diversity, that it recognizes "the welfare of the individual to be of paramount importance," and that it will result in the general welfare.

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