Career
He was a prolific contributor to the individualist anarchist periodical in the United States called Liberty.
He was a prolific contributor to the individualist anarchist periodical in the United States called Liberty.
Yarros was early on associated with the anarcho-communists but soon converted to individualist anarchism, and was very critical of everything collectivist. Yarros did not see anarchism as a utopian system, but like the other individualists in his league, he envisioned a society in which coercion was used only in defense:
But by the 1930s he had abandoned free-market anarchism for social democracy, in part because he had become convinced that the democratic state was a useful tool in the struggle against economic privilege.