Victor Yarros Explained

Victor Yarros
Birth Date:	1865
Birth Place:	Russia^[1]
Death Date:	1956
Nationality:	American
Spouse:	Rachelle Yarros

Victor S. Yarros (1865–1956) was an American anarchist, lawyer and author. He immigrated to the United States with his friend Charles David Spivak in 1882.^[2] He was law partner to Clarence Darrow for eleven years in Chicago, husband to the feminist gynecologist Rachelle Yarros (née Slobodinsky) and resident of Hull-House Settlement.^[3] He was a prolific contributor to the individualist anarchist periodical in the United States called Liberty.

Yarros' political views evolved significantly over the years, from free-market anarchism to social democracy. He shifted from Spencerian anarchism, to individualist anarchism under Benjamin Tucker and finally to a follower of Lysander Spooner. According to Roderick T. Long, by the 1930s, Yarros came to believe that the democratic state was useful in the struggle against economic privilege.^[4]

See also

• Anarchism in the United States
• Left-libertarianism

References

1. Victor Yarros (1897). "Individualist or Philosophical Anarchism".
2. Dr. Charles Spvak. Jewish Museum of the American West. http://www.jmaw.org/charles-spivak-jewish-denver/
3. http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/RVYarrosb.html "Rachelle and Victor Yarros Collection UIC Library"
4. Roderick T. Long (April 8, 2006). "Rothbard's "Left and Right": Forty Years Later". Mises Institute. Retrieved March 25, 2019.

Further reading

• Victor Yarros (1897). "Individualist or Philosophical Anarchism".
• Victor Yarros (1897). Anarchism: Its Aims and Methods.
• Victor Yarros (1888). "The Woman Question"
• Victor Yarros (1888). "Socialist Economics and the Labor Movement"
• Victor Yarros (1920). "Our revolution; essays in interpretation".
• Victor Yarros. "My 11 Years with Clarence Darrow".
• Works by Victor Yarros at the Fair Use Repository.
• Lysander Spooner (1912). Free Political Institutions: Their Nature, Essence, and Maintenance. An Abridgment and Rearrangement of Lysander Spooner's "Trial by Jury". Edited by Victor Yarros.

External links

• Roderick T. Long (March 16, 2006). "How Victor Yarros Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State". Retrieved March 25, 2019.
• https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/victor-yarros