The Attack Of Individual Anarchism On The United States
The individual anarchist base their moral beliefs on the doctrine that all human beings have complete control over their own body and possessions. The only limit is the right to liberty of other. Thus a homosexual relationship is an expression of liberty even if it is harmful to both or to society in general. A man can legally commit murder and cannibalism, if his victim consents. A woman can marry a dolphin. These have all happened and are continuing to happen. In the United States the Democrats are the primary Champion of this morality though it has a strong Republican presence.
The classical liberal theory of liberty is described in detail in John Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government. It states that human have total liberty but that liberty does not justify license. That means homosexuality, adultery, pornography, fornication, rape, murder, and other immoral actions are all civil rights violations. It also states that an individual has total liberty but not the liberty to harm themselves or others except for noble purposes. Abortion, suicide and animal abuse are civil liberty violations. Even environmentalist have some claim since the wanton destruction of plants and animals would be ignoble. Most classical liberal have been forced into the Republican Party.
There is a third party who believes the ideology of individual anarchism can be mixed with religion. In religion and individual anarchism mix worse than water and oil. As Jesus once said “No one can serve two Masters”. A attempt to do that is performed by those that believe that religion is private and you have no right to express it publicly. That sounds more like the actions of the Jews under Catholic or Muslim oppression than a separate doctrine of liberty.
In the end it comes to this will you fully embrace the doctrine of classical liberalism that was established as the law of the land by the Declaration of Independence and is based on love your neighbor as yourself or will you embrace Josiah Warren’s 1833 vision of socialism mixed with individualism where tyranny from your neighbor is acceptable in the name of individual expression.