fanarchist n.
a fan who shuns organized fandom; a fan who advocates for individual or small-group activities
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1942 Voice of the Imagi-Nation (#26) Nov. 5
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SIDNEY M DEAN vents his spleen on fanarchists [...] ‘So five fans can accomplish more by working singly on separate projects than the same five fans can working together on one project. Brother, it’ll take a helluva damn good man to prove that to me.’
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1944
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Jack Speer
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fanarchists—Those who oppose the existence of a general or even regional fen organization…. Fully articulated, the theory is a species of rugged individualism which asserts that fen acting singly or in small natural groups can accomplish more with the same amount of work than they can thru a super-organization.
Fancyclopedia 30/1 -
1955
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Mari Wolf
I enjoyed reading it, but I didn’t agree at all. Guess I’m no Fanarchist at heart. To me, a soapbox makes a poor typewriter stand.
Fandora’s Box in Imagination Apr. 120/1 -
1975
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John Boardman
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During the 1950s Dave was active in the Fanarchist crowd—those largely New York fans who avoided both fannish and mundane politics on the grounds that fanning should be fun.
In Memoriam: David Mason [1924–1974] in SF Review (#12) Feb. 13/1 -
2017
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Trina Robbins
The Riverside Dive [sic] crowd called themselves Fanarchists, and most of them were anarchists, but nothing like today’s thugs who cover their faces with scarves and use any demonstration as an opportunity to break windows and set fire to cars.
Last Girl Standing i. 30
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