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**Existentialist Anarchism** is a synthesis of
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[anarchism](anarchism "wikilink") and
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[existentialism](existentialism "wikilink"), arguing that existentialism
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provides a philosophical grounding for anarchist politics, the evidence
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being that many existentialist thinks gravitated towards anarchism. This
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tradition is largely intellectual, and not a practical guide for
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anarchist politics.
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## Thinks
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### Max Stirner
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[Stirner](Max_Stirner "wikilink") is considered by many to hold
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proto-anarchist and proton-existentialist views. In *[The Ego and Its
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Own](The_Ego_and_Its_Own "wikilink")*, Stiener advocates for a [complete
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rejection of society and it's very
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institutions](Egoist_Anarchism "wikilink") (like the
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[state](State_\(Polity\) "wikilink"), private property, religion,
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gender, monogamy and money) in favour of the formation of a [union of
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egoists](Union_of_Egoists "wikilink"), stating that there is nothing to
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look after but yourself, and to be a being of love and happiness.
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### Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Nietzche's](Friedrich_Nietzsche "wikilink") writings also contained
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strong critiques of religion (notably Christianity), the state and
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market economics. Although he held negative views of anarchists, his
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ideal of the *Übermensch* (superman), a person who was neither master
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nor slave, who took no regard for society and created their own morality
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and purpose in life.
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### Mikhail Bakunin
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[Bakunin](Mikhail_Bakunin "wikilink") expressed some
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proto-existentialist ideals, and
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### Henry David Thoreau
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### Franz Kafka
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### Martin Buber
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### Albert Camus
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### Jean-Paul Sartre
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### Stig Dagerman
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### Herbert Read
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### Saul Newman
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### L. Susan Brown
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