#max stirner

[liliththeanarchist]

This is true btw

[crackling-lightning]

This is a passage in The German Ideology where Marx and Engels mock Stirner for his fixation on "spooks", comparing him to a man who thinks people drown because they believe in gravity. This is what I would call, in my estimation, a sick burn. Learning about how Stirner as a Young Hegelian took Hegel's idealism to the extreme makes it seem like he's batshit crazy, saying things like the only reality that matters is the individual, "I" (the ego), and all other abstractions like god, morality, humanity, and society are "spooks" that enslave us. But his work (The Ego and Its Own) is the philosophical mirror of bourgeois idealism: the isolated individual is treated as the essence of human nature. Feuerbach made the same mistake, just from a different angle. Marx and Engels' critique further states (correctly, of course) that a phenomenon can only be understood properly if it is grasped as a Relation shaped by its historical moment and the social conditions that produce it.

[nonesovile]

My favorite philosopher and my favorite homestuck troll

[tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth]

"The middle class [German Bürgertum, “bourgeoisie”] professes a morality that is most closely connected with its essence. Its first demand in this regard is that one pursue a solid business, an honest trade, lead a moral life. To it, the swindler, the prostitute, the thief, robber and murderer, the gambler, the penniless man without employment, the reckless one are immoral. The upright bourgeois describes the opinion against these ‘immoral’ people as his ‘deepest indignation.’ All of them lack a stable residence, the solidity of business, a solid, respectable life, the steady income, etc.; in short, because their existence doesn’t rest on a secure basis, they are among the dangerous ‘individuals or lone drifters,’ [Vereinzelten is not usually used as a noun in German. As an adjective, it can be translated as “isolated,” “scattered,” “occasional,” and the like, so it carries the implication of some level of aloneness and lack of stability.] the dangerous proletariat; they are ‘individual troublemakers’ who have no ‘guarantees’ to offer and ‘nothing to lose,’ and so nothing to risk." - Max Stirner

[schwarzwalde]

Have some cursed Spamton art.

[mother-anarchy-offical]

[prole-log]

"The laborers have the most enormous power in their hands, and, if they once became thoroughly conscious of it and used it, nothing would withstand them; they would only have to stop labor, regard the product of labor as theirs, and enjoy it. This is the sense of the labor disturbances which show themselves here and there.

The State rests on the slavery of labor. If labor becomes free. the State is lost."

Max Stirner; The Unique and It’s Own (1845)

[dreemurkin]

This may be splitting hairs but I think Marx and Engels never fully deconstructed their bourgeois thought and that's why they weren't anarchists.

I likely wouldn't have come to this conclusion without Stirner but I am no Stirnerite or post-leftie

If there's one thing all leftists are good at though it is splitting hairs. I stopped being part of political groups because they aren't really concerned with actually solving problems and in a way politics was my escapism from problems happening in my own personal life that I needed to focus on.

I think that's the problem of politics in relation to your personal psyche, you actively neglect what you need to fix for the sake of higher values and end up experiencing a complete burnout - a flame that burns through your soul and kills all within it.

"99% of politics is symptoms"

While the indifference of Jung cannot be applied easily to the politics, specifically of america, today I do think he was right.