#stirner

[liliththeanarchist]

This is true btw

[secretly-an-olm]

she Proudhon on my Stirner until I Kropotkin

[gett-merkedd]

Those who believe that man has an immortal soul, and that a horse has not, may act from superstitious fear or reverence. The intelligent egoist will “respect” the “ vicious” horse sooner than the tame, subservient man. Viciousness is the resistance to enslavement. There is more virtue in the criminal classes than in the tame slaves. Crime and virtue are the same under State tyranny, as sin and virtue are the same under theological tyranny.

— James L. Walker

[tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth]

Let's go over this one more time. Max Stirner never called himself an anarchist. The only person, as far as I know, calling himself an anarchist at the time was Proudhon, who Stirner gave a sound birching for the moralism that served him as a surrogate religion. Many have called Stirner an anarchist - his philosophy is clearly ANARCHIC and he was both anti-state and anti-capitalist. But there are good reasons not to call him an anarchist, and I stopped doing so a while ago. Stirner's book was published, caused a stir, and then both the book and its author dropped into obscurity in light of the revolutionary wave of 1848. Stirner would remain obscure for the rest of his life and long after his untimely death - until roughly 1890. Stirner had no influence on the anarchist movement - except indirectly through Marx and Engels! - until this "rediscovery." So there you have it.

[tuckersunshine]

intro post

Im back after a hiatus. wazzup

I SUPPORT:

Individualist anarchism

Private law/Polycentric law

Dark woke progressivism

Left-libertarianism

Error Theory

Deism

I AM AGAINST:

Capitalism

Communism

Marxism-Leninism

Authoritarianism

Conservatism

Zionism

Wokescolding/Hypersensitive moralism

Moralism

TERFs

TIRFs

Nazism

Animal rights

If you disagree with me, I welcome a discussion. If you disagree with me and still wanna be friends, that's great!

my favorite things :3 :

Chess

Art

Philosophy

Politics

History

Debate

TCoAaL

Portal 2

Better Half

Destiny (the streamer)

Writing my evil thoughts

[one-two-buckle-my-shoe]

TV show about Max Stirner and Hans Christian Anderson living together as roommates but PLOT TWIST: Stirner is a super outgoing asexual and Anderson is an extremely socially awkward pansexual.

Its called "Affirmation and Negation"

[against-forms-recognizable]

The wealthier society becomes, the more alienated we become from one another, the more offended and fearful we are of one another, the more ashamed we are to actually be ourselves instead of sticking to the sterile platform of civility. The average person's enthusiasm for this hellscape is dystopian.

Skyrocketing rates of depression, loneliness, freefalling rates of relationship formation, dating, sex, and in the middle of this, the mass, delighted at the ability for capitalism to sell them a product like a Ring doorbell to mediate the fear of their fellow human being that capitalism itself produced in them. And for the depression and alienation modernity inculcates? Well, they can sell you therapy. For the loneliness? Look at these dating services, buy a Super Like now! Consume, consume, consume, and they've been trained to love it, to think that this is how it's meant to be.

Life is dirty, impure, offensive, tragic. We have all of these models of what the good, pure, moral person acts like, what the good life looks like - perfect models that do not exist in reality, meaning that other people are always going to be offensive, always going to be irritating, because they are not these ideals but only themselves, which can never embody an ideal.

We start to find being around others distasteful because it produces within us shame at how we are not what we and others demand of us - we are only our unique selves. We hold these ideals in common above ourselves, suppressing any part of us that does not conform to the mandate of the cop in our head that tells us what to do and how to be.

It is here, when we begin to suppress our authentic selves and genuine desires for the sake of what society demands we must be, that we die in life. A life that is not just a continual process of rendering yourself sterile and inoffensive - that is, a thing that is not alive, since life is inherently unclean and wild and 'death' is the process of becoming a thing that is motionless, without ability to give offense, without ability to conflict - requires an embrace of genuine authenticity, of the life that is cheek by jowl with death. The celebration of life as tragedy - of all of the things society tells us our life should not be, that we must avoid, must cleanse ourselves of - this is what it means to truly live.

[a-book-dragon]

i hate the term 'masculinism' or 'macho' being thrown around by certain types of leftists to decry any type of strength, aggression, assertiveness, individualism and will to power.

i remember last year's annual antifascist protest in my country (bulgaria is the only country that allows a fascist march by the name of lukovmarsh, and we protest against it every year).

some anarchists, including myself, were dressed for black block in order to protect our anonymity and communicate that we're ready to fight that we must. we didn't have to (the protest is sadly legal and there's always cops around).

despite nothing violent happening, there were a bunch of activists who were also there - liberal as well as 'anarchists' - who complained on social media about us (especially the boys among us i suppose) 'looking like nazi football hooligans', being 'macho' and 'scaring away the immigrants and roma people who would have otherwise joined the protest' (there was a whole bunch of them there; also, implying they're some scaredy animals who can't understand our slogans and read our signs is deeply disrespectful to them).

that was a long time ago... but it is ingrained in my mind to this day still. such a clear example why the left is failing. if this is not the result of some sort of state propaganda to debilitate the movement, i don't know what is. ngo's and liberals are infiltraring leftist and anarchist circles with their disgusting pacifism.

building power is necessary to any movement and violence doesn't necessitate hierarchy or oppression. will to power is a beautiful thing - if it is power TO do something and affirm yourself, not power OVER someone. fighting to protect a cause, being a shield between harm and those who can't fight for some reason - now that's noble.

violence and aggression are also not necessarily restricted to men. implying so means being disrespectful to women and queer people's abilities, their capacity for aggression, their dignity in fighting back (yes, women tend to be physically weaker - we got projectile weapons from pepper spray to guns to bridge the gap!). the answer to fascist and macho aggression is not simply building mutual aid and taking care of each other through the trauma they're causing, laying low, appealing to the public in a moralistic victimizing way (look at us - we're peaceful and helpless and can't defend ourselves! we're martyrs! help us daddy government!)

although mutual aid is imperative, sometimes we gotta beat a fascist to a pulp. we have to have the capacity for violent retribution. buy a weapon, learn some martial arts. don't appeal to the morality of mainstream society - it's a doomed affair from the start.

especially women and queer people, who are more or less socialized in not showing overt power and aggression - you have every right to take up space, to follow your desires freely, to be furious when patriarchal forces infringe on your dignity! build community, build power, and show the men you're no lesser than them! not through moralistic pleas, but through actual threats to patriarchal power.

now, some spaces in anarchist movements do tend to be more masculinized (the antifascist black block i was in, for instance, was made up of mostly cishet men). all feminist of course - but not perfect, still condescending sometimes, still holding on to antiquated forms of chivalry (i love chivalry; i hate that it's seen as a 'men only' territory). does that mean that as a woman i gotta restrict myself to mutual aid, community gardens, solidarity kitchens ('get back in the kitchen' much?).

no! all of the above is important and hard work, i've done it and deeply respect people who do it. but i will not reduce myself to this type of resistance only. being in masculinized spaces means that i get to reclaim my space in them. men have become the sole occupants of things that are for everyone. every day, i demonstrate to my male friends and comrades that women are not weak, we're not to be messed with. i speak my mind assertively, get into intellectual conflicts, always affirming myself through affirming feminism. i treat them like complete equals and expect the same in return. i don't hesitate to interrupt them; i adopt a confident body language. i strategically observe how they assert themselves and get what they want. i take what i like from masculinity and fight against the rest.

so what if the mosh pit in the punk concert is mostly men? i'm not 'uncomfortable' and don't feel 'unwelcome' - i get in and fiercely dance and shove and punch to show these boys who's boss.

so anyway, this got way too long. the point is - respect and assert yourself, fiercely defend yourself and your community, and don't let the state, men, or anyone else have a monopoly of violence. also, fuck pacifism (A)