Gonna read Max Stirners The Ego and His Own (self /politics/ repost)

[AnarchoBlonde]

Hello all, this is pretty much my first time posting on revleft. Hell, I haven't even properly lurked on revleft. So I guess that makes me a noob. So A few days ago I ordered The Ego and His Own. I became a nihilist a few weeks ago and an narchist a few months ago. So damn happy I'm not a tankie now. After releasing the complete nothingness in the sense of meaning and morals (really I heard about nihilist through Max Stirner). This lead me to the decision to read Max Stirner's "main" work.

I made a /leftypol/ post about this and I got told it would be boring by one person. I was also told it would basically trigger me. Being into nihilism and offending liberals on a daily basis, is this true?

Really what can I be promised by this book (apart from translation) including but not limited to: linguistics, detail, length of the book, Max's philosophy and how it could fit into an anarcho-communist philosophy.

Also, what where Max's economic beliefs? Was he a market anarchist or was he for a individualist communes system?

Thanks in advance.

[Sea]

Just some friendly advice: I'd recommend you familiarize yourself with both Leninism and Left-Communism before deciding what you believe in. I don't know who you refer to as "tankies", but you must read their side of the argument before you decide whether the counterarguments are based on a correct understanding or not.

I'd also highly recommend having some broad overview of these other philosophies before sitting down to read the main works of each. You'll get a lot more out of the main works that way, and you can get some dialogue going on in your head between the different viewpoints.

[David00131]

His economic beliefs are highly contested, but he was explicitly anti-capitalist. It is likely he was either a collectivist like Bakunin or a mutualist like Proudhon. Stirner, however, is more concerned with explaining the issues with our current system and explaining what a better system would allow us to do, rather than going into detail about what he thought a better system was. He came up with something called a union of egoists, but he doesn't explain this idea very thoroughly. The Ego and His Own is, not in my opinion, a boring book. In fact, it's very easy to read compared to most other books of the time, and Stirner's sarcasm is quite entertaining usually