In practice,in the context of late twentieth and earty twenty –first century developed societies,the term “individualism ” is generally congruent with a world view whose adherents wage a metaphorical low-lewel war against what they perceive to be the incessant and incremental growth in the power of the state.True individualists would undoubtedly argue that society’s attemps to regulate the individualist’s two most closely guarded spheres of personal liberty – economic and civil-will always represent individualism’s most keenly fought over battlegrounds. This strongly individualistic view of the role of society is often referred to as “libertarianism”