the ego and his own

[Folk The System]

Regardless of what you think of egoism or individualism, i still think Max Stirner's the Ego and His Own is worth reading. Although, I'm not quite finished with it. So far I've found it pretty thought provoking. Anyone else read it?

[Folk The System]

i guess thats a resounding "no"

[coda]

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[Folk The System]

the whole idea that morality in general is controlled by religion, and whether your religiously christian or "morally" christian, you are sitll controlled by the church

[YSR]

I really dug on the idea of "free association," which I regard as the basis for much of anarchist practice and a post-revolutionary society.

Of course, the fundamental problem with Stirner (and Spooner even more so) is that they've been claimed by the an-caps for their own. In the an-cap mythology, Stirner's Ego and its Own forms the basis from which Spooner, Tucker, and others develop further. They see the "free association" concept as a basis for a friendly, petit-bourgeois-based capitalism, which totally blows me away.

Granted, I think that's bullshit, but so is the whole an-cap project.