I just listened to this lecture on Stirner https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsoVgc5rGs
The lecturer didn’t seem to have a good grasp of what anarchism is about,- at one point he seemed to imply that anarchism is about getting rid of organisation?,- and he didn’t seem to get what leftists mean by “private property”, but the stuff specifically on Stirner was interesting.
All the things that Stirner called “spooks” are things which benefit ruling classes at the expense of other classes e.g. the proletariat in fairly obvious ways (i.e., the perpetuation of spooks is in the interest of ruling classes): did Stirner ever press this point, or did he only ever discuss spooks in a “psychological” way?
Also, I’ve been interpreting Stirner as arguing for a sort of descriptive “this is what people do/how people act”, etc sort of ethics, as opposed to a normative “you should all act like this” sort of ethics. Is this correct?
In short, the property question cannot be solved so amicably as the
Socialists, yes, even the Communists, dream. It is solved only by the
war of all against all. The poor become free and proprietors only when
they — rise. Bestow ever so much on them, they will still
always want more; for they want nothing less than that at last — nothing
more be bestowed.
It will be asked, but how then will it be when the have- nots take
heart? Of what sort is the settlement to be? One might as well ask that I
cast a child’s nativity. What a slave will do as soon as he has broken
his fetters, one must —await.
wherein he preaches class warfare. This isn’t normative, to be clear, but a clear statement of how the impoverished can free ourselves through class warfare.
I know this is meant to be a funny but funfact! The lotus set in Magic: The Gathering is bar-none the most expensive set in history, getting a whole set for a 60-card average deck would easily cost more than the car pictured. This card alone is worth nearly 20k, with some others costing several thousand dollars.
Yet another paranoid megalomaniac, exalter of a mad philosophy and decadent literature, feeble imitator of the artists of opium and hashish, and siren at so much an hour.