Hurry over to the Vagabond Theorist page and check out the full translation of “Stirner’s Critics,” Max Stirner’s reply to Szeliga, Hess and Feuerbach. There’s a lot of very valuable clarification in the essay. Bravo! for making the entire thing available.
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Victor Yarros, “‘Egoism’ Bedeviling Anarchism”
Benjamin R. Tucker’s rather sudden conversion to Max Stirner’s philosophy of Egoism was a calamitous accident. There is nothing in common between individualist and philosophical Anarchism as Tucker developed it on the foundations laid by Jefferson, Thoreau, Emerson, Warren, Spooner, Spencer, Herbert, Green and Andrews, and Stirner’s German political metaphysics. Some of Tucker’s adherents uncritically swallowed. Egoism and persuaded themselves that it was a corollary, if not a logical deduction from anarchistic premises. This was a gross error. Egoism is half platitudinous, half fallacious.
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Alfred Fouillée, “Immoralism and the Absolute Individualism of Stirner” (1902)
NIETZSCHE ET L’IMMORALISME […] INTRODUCTION NIETZSCHE AND IMMORALISM […] INTRODUCTION CHAPITRE PREMIER l’immoralisme et l’individualisme absolu de Stirner. I. — Selon Stirner, ce n’est pas l’homme qui est la mesure de tout, c’est le moi. Stirner croit trouver le vrai point d’appui universel dans la conscience individuelle, dans ce moi toujours présent, qui se retrouve en toute pensée. Feuerbach avait proposé l’Homme à notre adoration ; c’est là, répond Stirner, un nouvel Être suprême ; l’Homme n’a aucune réalité ; tout ce qu’on lui attribue est « un vol fait à l’individu ». Feuerbach avait dit : Le Dieu dont parle Hegel après Platon n’est autre […]
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Might Makes Right (a bad book is good to find…)
Ragnar Redbeard’s infamous work, “Might is Right,” aka “The Survival of the Fittest, or the Philosophy of Power” (1896), has shown up at Archive.org. Those inclined to hate egoism should cherish this work, which has few—arguably none—of the pesky redeeming features so common in works by Stirner, Badcock, Walker, etc.