John Beverley Robinson (1853–1923)

Biographical sketch

John Beverley Robinson (1853–1923) was an American individualist anarchist writer and translator who contributed to Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty. In his 1915 essay “Egoism,” he examined what it means for an individual to understand the world from their own standpoint. He also translated Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century into English.

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Works by John Beverley Robinson

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