Thoreau: Anarchist, Minarchist or Individualist?

"It is evident that Thoreau's philosophy, however we may attempt to define it, was not such as to denounce all taxation as socialistic thievery, nor to forego 'fellow-countrymen' in favor of sovereign human beings. Yet, he has expressed an uncompromised desire to 'stand aloof' from the State, and has declared ? however quietly ? war against it." Column by Alex R. Knight III.