The Berkeley Barb (1965 – 1980) was an underground newspaper published in Berkeley California. While this classified advertisement mentioning Ragnar Redbeard is in itself trivial, it is significant in that it appears at a time when Redbeard and his work were out of print and out of favor. From the March 28 – April 3 […]
A Criticism of the Philosophy of Egoism by Henry Meulen To the Editor of The Egoist. Madam, The sudden change in the title of your journal fills me with misgivings: I was not aware that the Stirnerian Egoism had taken so strong a hold upon you, and I hasten to beg you to permit me […]
We are not an advice-bureau and give no recipes for conduct, though we do not deny ourselves the pleasure of expressing opinions upon other people’s conduct or even of saying what we would have done, or would do, in a given case. On the other hand, if anyone can cull useful advice from these pages […]
Notwithstanding some very excellent arguments in your two articles on Nature’s decrees concerning industry and militarism, I hardly think question is finally settled. It is not us to put on our seven-league boots and go on a tour of inspection among European nations during the past 2000 years. If we wished to determine the […]
“I, AN INDIVIDUAL, AN EGO –” “I, an individual, an Ego, alone for all time, I want to vote.” So runs the basic form of argumentation recommended to deep- thinking suffragists in a recent letter from their national headquarters. It reveals at once the extreme individualism with which anti-suffragists have often charged the movement. It […]
The beginning of the New Year will serve as a sufficient apology f0r stating afresh the ambitions of this journal and detailing what one considers to be its unique a n d supremely important task: one for the execution of which we can see no evidence of minds other than our own being forthcoming. There […]
Protagoras, Nietzsche, Stirner: Expositors of Egoism by Benedict Lachmann translated by Edward Mornin foreword by Kevin I. Slaughter appendix by Trevor Blake Stand Alone SA1090 Available at Amazon.com or Barnes & Nobles or Underworld Amusements Finally, the 1985 translation of Benedict Lachmann’s 1914 work on Egoism has been published, after being lost for 33 years. […]
“The Man Born Blind” Ambrose Bierce A man born blind received his sight By a painful operation; And these are things he saw in the light Of an infant observation. He saw a merchant, good and wise. And greatly, too, respected, Who looked, to those imperfect eyes, Like a swindler undetected. He saw a patriot […]
The newest issue of Der Geist, the journal of historical Egoism, is here. Rare and unpublished works from the first century of egoism-the philosophy of Max Stirner. Unique translations of Stirner into English; significant archives of egoism rescued from the ash heap of history; blood and thunder from Friedrich Nietzsche complimented by the laughing philosophy of […]
THERE could be no more forcible illustration of the power of thought than is to be so clearly seen in the wonderful change in the last few years, in the position of woman and her relation to the economic world. Not so very many years ago she was considered necessary, indeed, to the life of […]
