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.

Victor Yarros
Born1865
Died1956
NationalityAmerican
SpouseRachelle Yarros

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]

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  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. ^ "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.

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