Q. Based upon the purely physical aspects of evolution, the materialist has formulated as the basis of ethics the law of the survival of the physically fittest. From a similar observation of intellectual processes and accomplishments, the intellectualist has enunciated the doctrine of the survival of the intellectually fittest. Is it not a fact, […]
JA Andrews, forgotten Australian radical intellectual 1865 JA Andrews (John Arthur Andrews; Jack Andrews; d. 1903), Australian anarchist writer and pamphleteer, probably the most important of the group which came together in the Melbourne Anarchist Club. Henry Lawson knew him (c. 1892) when Andrews was 27 and campaigning in Sydney (for which he ended up […]
What is the I of Me and You and the other one billion, five hundred million nine hundred and ninety-nine specimens of the Homo Genus that happen to be moping around on this dust mote? My Soul, Spirit, Will, Consciousness, Ego, Mentality and Mind are subordinate to I. I boast of my strong Will, yet […]
Might is Right Might was right when Christ was hanged Beside the Jordan’s foam; Might was right when Gracchus bled Upon the stones of Rome: And might was right when Danton fell, When Emmet passed away— “‘Tis the logic of the ancient world, And the gospel of to-day.” Might was right when Spartacus Went down […]
Covington Hall’s Satanic Lumberjacks & Southron Rebels: Bombastic & Blasphemic Poetry from a Forgotten Labor Movement Edited and Introduced by Kevin I. Slaughter 5.5 x 8.5″, saddle-stiched STAND ALONE SA1113 Available from Underworld Amusements This collection of poetry is culled from the three labor journals that Redbeard-inspired Wobbly activist Covington Hall edited from 1913 to […]
The New Age No. 671 New Series. Vol.1. No.12 Thursday, July 18, 1907, P.188 MARGINALIA. Now that Nietzsche has entered the sphere of general discussion it is natural that publishers should find a growing demand for works dealing with the philosophy of Egoism, and Mr. Fifield is doing a service by issuing a translation of […]
My property is not a thing, since this has an existence independent of me; only my might is my own. Not this tree, but my might or control over it, is what is mine. Now, how is this might perversely expressed? They say I have a right to this tree, or it is my rightful […]
Schmidt (Stirner) and his Egoistic Anarchism I cannot remember whether Max Nordau has included Schmidt among the imaginative monstrosities of his “Degeneration;” but if ever a person earnt an epitaph from that atrabilious Philistine, that person was Johann Kaspar Schmidt, pseudonymously known as Max Stirner. Stirner—I shall henceforth call him Stirner—was the expounder of […]
THE LION AND THE LAMB “Might shall make right the law of the world” – this was one of the beautiful phrases President Wilson concocted for the benefit of the unthinking. It is indeed a mouth-filling resonant sentence but it is nevertheless untrue. “Might shall make right the law of the world” is […]
MIGHT IS RIGHT! A new book has lately been issued in this city that it destined to challenge the attention of sociologists the world over, for it attacks the fundamental theories upon which all their theories are based. Large portions of it have already been translated into German by Dr. Von Otto Ammon, and lengthy […]
