Characteristics of Individualism

1. Self Interest
2. Competition
3. Social and Economic Freedom over Social and Economic Equality
   -the freedom to distribute resources however an individual pleases
4. John Locke
5. The society is not responsible for the welfare of it's citizens
6. "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who acquires it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." -- Adam Smith
   -individualist ideologies may sometimes also be thought of as an ideology where "every man for himself"