individualist anarchism

[Joe R. Golowka]

> I think there was a 19th century German call Max Stirner who as a sort
> of proto-randite. He preached a form of individualist anarchism based on
> absolute personal selfishness - including a right do anything you had
> the strength to get away with. I heard gossip that his wife left him
> because he was too sexually selfish for her; I found this too juicy to
> research and spoil with an actual fact.
>
> In all fairness some people have argued to me that this view unfairly
> caricatures Stirner.

It does.  Unlike Rand, Stirner was opposed to Private Property (as it restricts individual liberty).
One can argue for anarcho-communism on the basis of Stirnerite individualism.

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Joe R. Golowka
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