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ziq wrote (edited )

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yeah it's regurgitated from reddit.

Every time stirner comes up in convos about white supremacy, ancoms paste that text to shut down the post-leftists, and the post-leftists never refute it so I figured it was real.

It's not just leftists - I always see big time stirner scholars saying he was a bigot, so I had no reason to doubt it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/517shs/why_is_max_stirner_popular_with_some/d7bd51g/

it's hard to deny that Stirner himself was hugely racist and anti-semitic. At one point, he flat out says that no "full blooded jew" would make it that far in his book. Like, all this is unjustifiable with egoism, and egoism is certainly incompatible with racist and anti-semitic ideologies, but those were spooks that haunted Stirner

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ziq wrote

Give me some fuel I can actually use to diminish smug stirner nerds.

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ziq wrote

There are a lot of people who spend a lot of time reading stirner who have no idea that text is satire aimed at mocking Engels. I've been reading their comments around the internet and apparently even books that explain his writing claim he was being racist in that text. Seems most egoists don't actually understand Stirner and I don't blame them because it's so poorly translated.

I've tried reading his stuff more than 10 times and every time I tune out.

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ziq wrote

Is it this?

If I had before me Jews, Jews of the true metal, I should have to stop here and leave them standing before this mystery as for almost two thousand years they have remained standing before it, unbelieving and without knowledge. But, as you, my dear reader, are at least not a full-blooded Jew — for such a one will not go astray as far as this — we will still go along a bit of road together, till perhaps you too turn your back on me because I laugh in your face.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-the-ego-and-his-own

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