Egoist Anarchism
Current founded by Max Stirner in The Ego and Its Own (1844), which rejects the state, morality, religion and rights as spooks and proposes voluntary unions of egoists who associate only while it serves them.
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Current founded by Max Stirner in The Ego and Its Own (1844), which rejects the state, morality, religion and rights as spooks and proposes voluntary unions of egoists who associate only while it serves them.
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I want the Unique One free of God, morality and state, allied with egoists only while it pays, owning only what its might holds.
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Leans further toward liberty than 99% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Power is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

A German philosopher, Stirner is the great reference of egoist anarchism, rejecting state, morality, and institutions as oppressive abstractions and placing the sovereign individual and their interests at the center of everything.
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