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en-wikipedia-org-2151		Individualism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	17441	2502	54	Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology and social outlook that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.[1][2] Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance[3] and advocate that interests of the individual should achieve precedence over the state or a social group[3] while opposing external interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such as the government.[3] Individualism is often defined in contrast to totalitarianism, collectivism and more corporate social forms.[4][5] Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form".[56] Henry David Thoreau was an important early influence in individualist anarchist thought in the United States and Europe.[57] Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist, who is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2151.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2151.txt