Malfew Seklew Pronounces Proletarians in Purgatory


1845-1945, Events, Malfew Seklew

Sirfessor Malfew Seklew takes on the Social Democratic Federation as reported in Justice Saturday for August 9, 1902. DEBATE, Sunday, August 10, at 6.30 p.m., on “Meadows,” Edinburgh, between GEORGE DOULL (S.D.F.) and MALFEW SEKLEW (the Apostle of Atheogism), on “Why the Proletarians are in Purgatory.” ANARCHISTS IN EDINBURGH. DEAR COMRADE, In your last issue […]

May 11, 2022

Dora Marsden Ephemera


1845-1945, Dora Marsden, Journals, The Egoist 1914

Two minor previously undocumented ephemeral mentions of Dora Marsden, editor of The Egoist. First, two lines from the book-length poem The Atheist by George Bedborough (London: Garden City Press, 1919)… “Dora Marsden writes well and so do her friends, / But The Egoist sometimes to crankiness tends.” Second, an advertisement for The Egoist which appeared […]

April 27, 2022

SA1225 | Max Stirner and the Philosophy of the Individual | Leo Markun & Jason Ramsay-Brown


1845-1945, Max Stirner, Stand Alone

Leo Markun provides a strong introduction to the history, life, and philosophy of Johann Caspar Schmidt, known professionally as Max Stirner, the father of Egoism. This long essay was first released in 1925 as part of the Little Blue Book series by the prolific publisher Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951). Available from Underworld Amusements This booklet was […]

March 24, 2022

“I” a poem by Enrique Magon


1845-1945, Poetry

  I Enrique Magon Conditions would crush me, Dull dunces would hush me, If I were not I. The world would enchain me, Each fool would restrain me, If I were not I. Dear friends would ignore me And blockheads would bore me Until I should die; But I know the rabble, Their rant and […]

March 23, 2022

Bonar Thompson: Vox Populi Vox Dei


1845-1945, Historical Work

Vox populi vox dei. It is more often the voice of the ventriloquist. The war lords, press lords and money lords pull the string and the figure works. “The people is a beast of muddy brain” wrote Campenella nearly 400 years ago “that knows not its own strength. Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain, with […]

March 16, 2022

Australian Socialist drinking club whoops it up singing the Marseillaise, and songs by Arthur Desmond and J.A. Andrews…


1845-1945, Historical Work, Ragnar Redbeard

The Hegemony Club was one of many turn-of-the-century socialist groups in Australia. Teri Merlyn, in their “Writing Revolution”, lists the following: Tocsin Clubs, The Victorian Socialist’s League, the Victorian Labour Federation, the Labour Church, the Women’s Political and Social Crusade, a Yarra Bank Propaganda Group, the Richmond Working Men’s Clubs, the Knights of Labour and […]

February 23, 2022

Announcing “Der Geist” journal Issue 5, Spring 2022


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Bibliographic, Der Geist, Dora Marsden, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georgia Replogle, Historical Work, Kevin I. Slaughter, Malfew Seklew, Max Stirner, News, Ragnar Redbeard, Sidney E. Parker, Steven T. Byington, Thomas Common, Trevor Blake

Der Geist issue 5 is now available! That creates a total of 930 pages of egoism from 1845 to 1945, with “lost” works reprinted, new or lost translations in every issue, rare photos and images, and new research and writing. Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon.com | Amazon.UK | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org DER GEIST issue five features the first publication of original […]

February 17, 2022