Two things about J. Wm Lloyd’s essay “Anarchist-Mutualism”
Reading over the essay “Anarchist-Mutualism” from former Tuckerite J. Wm Lloyd (who had deserted to statism by the time he wrote the piece), two things struck me very early in it…
1) Confirmation, once again, that Tucker’s doctrine and Proudhon’s were regarded then as one and the same:
“In 1884, or thereabout, I became a disciple of the school of Proudhon and Tucker.”
2) There’s something about hyphens…
“Tho never very orthodox, I passed for a pretty straight Individualist-Anarchist for some 20 years.”
I may be reading to much into it, but it’s not clear that the author was referring to an “Individualist-Anarchist” as a subset of the larger category “Anarchists” or if he was, instead, indicating he regarded the two (”Individualist” and “Anarchist”) as synonyms.
Sheer speculation, but I shall reserve this alternative interpretation to tentatively apply to other writings in the future as test cases.
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I’ve only read your post here, but if Lloyd doesn’t use “Anarchist” and “Mutualism” as synonyms, as I gather he does not, then it seems unlikely that he would use “Individualist” and “Anarchist” as synonyms, at least not if he is consistent with his use of hyphens throughout the essay.
@belinsky — Excellent point. Like I said, sheer speculation.