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  1. Stirner's "The Ego and Its Own" argued the individual owes nothing to God, state, or any abstraction. It was buried for thirty years. Then a Basel library register showed Nietzsche was quietly pointing students toward it. A French scholar went and read the register himself.

    radical-guide.com/the-book-nie

    #RadicalHistory #Anarchism #PoliticalPhilosophy #Stirner

  2. Uh, in meinem Kopf „geistert“ (pun intended) gerade etwas herum: #Fisher, #Derrida, #Stirner und hellenistische #Philosophie. Der Blogbeitrag der Woche könnte #WEIRD werden.

    „Denn wo Gespenster Platz genommen, / Ist auch der Philosoph willkommen.“ – Goethe, Faust II

  3. The human concept of self is degrading in an acidic environment. Accumulative hostility toward the concept of self-ownership builds
    brick by brick the tomb of the individual. Rhetoric designed to chisel at our autonomous self-worth is serving only the cause of power - power that is eating its own vascular system: a metaphor for the consumption of the unique self-creating 'I'.
    #Egoism #PoliticsIssues #Stirner #Philosophy

  4. If you hold something as true and can't admit yourself to think the inverse of it, you are just obsessed, hunting ghosts. #stirner thoughts. It's fun to try to follow up. Max stirner liked to do this and with enjoyable wit. It's a pity he didn't live long enough to respond to Marx/Engels "German ideology" which was a probably deliberate misunderstanding of Stirners destruction of socialism, capitalism, liberalism, christianity etc ... he stopped nowhere and arrived at the "creative nothing"

  5. #stirner back in the 1840ties talked about "police care", a socially distributed practise for ensuring "non-deviant" behaviour. The hitlerian nazis selected guardians in each neighborhood to report deviant behaviour, triggering special forces to deport neighbors to concentration camps. "See something say something" and similar authoritarian policing slogans carry the same "police care spirit".

    How about caring without the policing?

    Gives "abolish police" a different more intimate meaning.

  6. In order to escape coercion you must reject the spooks in your mind. Religion, the state, family, and group mentality impedes you from understanding who you are as the unique. Raise above artifical restraints to become your whole authentic self. ✊️
    #egoism #anarchism #unique #dereinzige #stirnerposting #stirner #maxstirner #community #postleftanarchism #postleft

  7. "Human nature" arguments against anarchism essentialize humans into robots with cogs. We are not robots. Don't claim you want a state then get mad when the state fucks you over because the "evil human nature" didn't work they way you wanted.
    The problem is the system, not human beings. Please stop blaming humans when you force them to act like this.
    #anarchism #anarchy #communism #communist #egoism #stirner #leftist #statist #antistate

  8. I'll probably never put a gender flag in my pfps because I literally feel no sense of gender to the point where I don't even want people to know what gender I was. I want folks to see me as a human being. #agender #transgender #egoism #stirner #anarchism #lgbtqia

  9. Nearly every argument against anarchism can be reduced to human nature or claims of utopia.
    Almost all human nature arguments can be debunked by pointing out how humans aren't greedy mofos who kill everyone all the time.
    Utopian arguments can be debunked by pointing out how assuming that a statist society is necessary is like saying allowing people to be abused is necessary to stop crime.
    #anarchism #egoism #stirner #debate #anarchistdebates #lgbt #facts #argument

  10. Dass Gesetze von Ministerien oder Parlamenten "abgesegnet" werden indiziert dass Staaten säkularisierte Kirchen sind, und dieser Zusammenhang bricht in immer Staaten auch durch, indem sie "entsekularisiert" werden. Das heilige ist die Bibel oder die Verfassung .... In beiden Fällen etwas sakrosanktes das über mir steht, und das nicht in Frage gestellt werden darf. #stirner

  11. Already around 1840 max #stirner realized that national states (no matter if liberal, socialist or conservative) are a secularization of the "one God". Nationalist calls for unity, backsliding of pro-state towards pro-religious bigotry is thus not surprising. Government and God are doppelgaengers of each other. The obsessive idea that there is a higher unity and order, in which, sooner or later, violence is not only acceptable but called for. How to get rid of these collective obsessions?

  12. Erfreulich zu lesen, dass mehr Linke die Werke von Max Stirner und die Bedeutung des Individuums und der Selbstbefreiung (statt Dogmatismus und Zwangskollektiv) zu schätzen lernen.

    "Stirner advocated the self-liberation of the individual from fixed dogmas and sacred conventions through combining with others in voluntary associations to accomplish what no one could do on their own: be free. For Stirner, the struggle to live one’s own life free from the domination of others requires starting from oneself, from one’s own needs and desires, and building from there. No more fighting for God’s cause, the nation’s cause, the people’s cause — but for oneself, one’s own cause. This cause is not reducible to maximizing utility, acquiring wealth, or seeking pleasutirre — rather, it names a multiplicity of incommensurable ends that each individual pursues throughout their changing life, sometimes failing, sometimes reaching, always striving anew."

    anarchistfederation.net/max-st

    Der Text erschien auch im Jacobin-Magazine: jacobin.com/2024/02/max-stirne

    #Stirner #Antiautoritär #Anarchism #Anarchismus #Freiheit

  13. CW: Egoism. What is an individual?

    How do you define an individual?

    Are there concrete dividing lines where we can distinguish between influences on the individual and attributes of the individual?

    I have recently finished reading Stirner, I first read the Ego and His Own... And then I read The Unique and its Property. I found the latter to be a far more nuanced and elucidating translation.

    But throughout both reads, it struck me that how Stirner's viewpoint gets interpreted depends entirely on how we define the individual.

    I have been thinking that what makes every individual Unique, is their specific contextual configuration. This would be the traditional view of the autonomous person, and their surrounding environments, and historical and cultural context, and the information network to which they have and are connected.

    In this way, the individual is greater than the traditional autonomous person as has been depicted for centuries. The individual is a unique configuration of multiple and changing components, activities, connections, and dependencies.

    Viewed in this light, the implications of Stirner's Unique is vastly different from the individualist view that was originally proposed in The Ego and His Own

    #egoism #stirner #individualism