John Beverley Robinson (1853–1923), was an American anarchist author, publisher, translator, and architect.

He was for a time publisher of the Free Soiler the newsletter of the Georgist

Georgism

Georgism is an economic philosophy and ideology that holds that people own what they create, but that things found in nature, most importantly land, belong equally to all...

 American Free Soil Society. Today he is most identified with the individualist

Individualist anarchism

Individualist anarchism refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and his or her will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems. Individualist anarchism is not a single philosophy but refers to a...

/egoist

Egoist anarchism

Egoist anarchism is a school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner, a nineteenth century Hegelian philosopher whose "name appears with familiar regularity in historically orientated surveys of anarchist thought as one of the earliest and best-known exponents of...

 wing of American anarchism (though he also had incarnations as a Tolstoyan

Tolstoyan

The Tolstoyan movement is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy . Tolstoy's views were formed by rigorous study of the ministry of Jesus, particularly the Sermon on the Mount....

 non-resistant

Nonresistance

Nonresistance is generally defined as "the practice or principle of not resisting authority, even when it is unjustly exercised". At its core is discouragement of, even opposition to, physical resistance to an enemy...

 and as a Georgist), and was associated with Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was a proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century, and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.-Summary:Tucker says that he became an anarchist at the age of 18...

’s Liberty.

Works

• "Egoism" by J.B. Robinson
• The Economics of Liberty (1916)
• Rebuilding the World: An outline of the principles of anarchism (1917)
• The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century by P.J. Proudhon, translated by J.B. Robinson

Sources

• Martin, J.J. Men Against the State: the expositors of individualist anarchism in America, 1827-1908 (1970)