Little Black Cart/Ardent Press (R.I.P.) + Union of Egoists + Underworld Amusements


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Bibliographic, Book, Events, Historical Work, Housekeeping, News

On December 31, 2023 the Berkeley anarchist publisher and distributor Little Black Cart / Ardent Press closed shop after many years of the project producing fascinating and challenging work, often finding it brought them at odds with many in the anarchist milieu they operated in. After the Underworld Amusements edition of The Unique and Its […]

June 26, 2024

YEAR EIGHT


1845-1945, 1946-Today

The Union of Egoists website was announced April 1st of 2016 with the release of Max Stirner Bibliography by Trevor Blake. Happy anniversary to the royal Us. The idea for this site and much else was crystalized in a chat of February 2nd, 2016 between Trevor Blake and Kevin I. Slaughter. This chat was printed in our […]

April 1, 2024

Announcing Der Geist, Issue 6. A Braille Stirner for Helen Keller and Ragnar Redbeards secret Canadian life!


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Apio Ludd, Benjamin DeCasseres, Benjamin R. Tucker, Bibliographic, Bonar Thompson, Book, Clarence Lee Swartz, Der Eingene, Der Geist, Dora Marsden, E. Armand, Egoism, En Marge, Enrico Arrigoni, Eresia, Events, Freewoman, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Schumm, Georgia Replogle, Henry Replogle, Historical Work, Housekeeping, i-studies, Idolatry, J. William Lloyd, James J. Martin, James L. Walker, John Basil Barnhill, John Beverly Robinson, Journals, Kevin I. Slaughter, La Bande à Bonnot, Laurance Labadie, Letters, Libertarian Broadsides, Libertarian Microfiche, Liberty, Lucifer, Malfew Seklew, Mark A. Sullivan, Max Stirner, Mildred Loomis, Minus One, My Own, New Freewoman, News, non serviam, Podcast, Poetry, Ragnar Redbeard, Redbeard's Review, Renzo Novatore, Reviews, Sidney E. Parker, Stand Alone, Steven T. Byington, The Clarion, The Eagle and The Serpent, The Egoist 1914, The New En Marge, The Storm, Thomas Common, Trevor Blake, Uncategorized, Unionists, Western World Review

An anthology of rare and never-before-seen essays and images from the history of egoism. Over two hundred pages of original translations, bibliographies, art, ephemera and more. Discover rare photographic glimpses of pioneering egoists such as Dora Marsden and Benjamin R. Tucker, and delve into the visionary project to produce a Braille edition of Max Stirner’s […]

October 23, 2023

Parents: What Are They Good For? | Benjamin DeCasseres, Chip Smith | SA1252


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Benjamin DeCasseres, Book, Stand Alone

Benjamin DeCasseres’ essay “Parents: What Are They Good For?” originally appeared exclusively in the premiere issue (dated January 1, 1916) of Revolt, a short-lived literary anarchist periodical that was published and edited by Hippolyte Havel in New York City before being suppressed by the U.S. government. Despite the appearance of novelty, the idea to feature […]

August 5, 2023

Sirfessor Seklew Texts from a Soap Box


1845-1945, Malfew Seklew

Soap box oratory was no figure of speech to Fred M. Wilkes. When he died at the age of 77 in New York his career as an informal outdoor speaker stretched back 55 years. Other haranguers of street crowds dubbed him “king of the soap-boxers.” It all began in Hyde Park, London. Son of a […]

July 31, 2023

SA1250 | The Radical Book Shop of Chicago | Kevin I. Slaughter & Lillian H. Udell


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Book, Historical Work, Kevin I. Slaughter, Malfew Seklew, Ragnar Redbeard, Stand Alone

Title: The Radical Book Shop of Chicago Subtitle: In Which a Disaffected Preacher, His Blind Anarchist Wife, and Their Precocious Daughters Create an Important Hub of Literary, Bohemian, and Revolutionary Culture in Progressive-Era Chicago Author: Kevin I. Slaughter, with texts by Lillian H. Udell Paperback | 5.5 x 8.5”, 128 pages | Price: $16.95 | ISBN: 978-1-943687-28-2 […]

April 30, 2023

Max Stirner and the Grisette


1845-1945, Historical Work, Max Stirner

Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940) was an anarchist of the collective variety, but she knew her individualist anarchists too. In Victims of Morality and The Failure of Christianity (1913) Goldman gets personal about Max Stirner and his darling in Goldman’s denunciation of morality… Meanwhile the respectable young man, excited through the daily association and contact […]

December 28, 2022

Mother Earth Bibliography


1845-1945, Bibliographic

Mother Earth Bibliography BOOKS Michael Bakunin, God and the state (1916) (first MEPA edition; first published in the US by Benjamin R Tucker in 1883.) Alexander Berkman, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912) Voltairine de Cleyre, Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre (1914) Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (intro. Hippolyte Havel, 1910. Second, revised edition in both cloth and paper, 1911; third revised edition co-published […]

November 15, 2022