Stirner's claim that the state is an illegitimate institution has made him an influence upon the anarchist tradition; his thought is often seen as a form of individualist anarchism.

"I was never a Marxist, although I have always felt myself part of the anarchist tradition," Mr. Fischer said in an interview.

This avoidance of power hierarchies puts parecon in the anarchist political tradition.

"Picasso, you know, came out of the Spanish anarchist tradition," she said.

Autonomedia is one of the main North American publishers of radical theoretical works, especially in the anarchist tradition.

Yet in apparent contradiction, Bellegarrigue adhered to the central anarchist tradition in his idea of society as necessary and natural and as having "a primordial existence".

It fits into our great anarchist tradition.

Like the campesinos and artisans, and in the anarchist tradition, the Casa leadership embraced the idea of worker self-management in all spheres of production.

Regarding the so-called "philosophical, individualist, spiritual and 'lifestyle' traditions," the authors say "we do not regard these currents as part of the broad anarchist tradition."

The book argues that there are no rational or historical grounds for including currents like Stirnerism and Mutualism in the anarchist tradition.