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 magnum opus for the indomitable Helen Keller. Unearth a plethora of fascinating artifacts pertaining to Malfew Seklew, and be riveted by the astonishing revelation of Ragnar Redbeard’s brief yet impactful foray as a Canadian Socialist Provocateur.

This sixth issue of Der Geist is sure to delight and offend, but most of all, serve as an essential philosophical reference work for centuries to come.

DER GEIST: The Journal of Egoism from 1845 – 1945 | ISSUE 6 | Winter 2023
Paperback, 212 pages, $15
ISBN 978-1-944651-29-9, ISSN 2639-5339

Der Geist, (Trevor Blake, editor; Kevin I. Slaughter, co-editor) is an English-language journal for an international audience, publishing original scholarship on the philosophy of egoism. The journal is descriptive of the first century of egoism in print (from the 1845 publication of Der Einzige und sein Eigentum by Max Stirner to the end of 1945), not prescriptive in advocacy of egoism.

CONTENTS

Introduction by the Editor  2

1. Max Stirner   7

Max Stirner’s Anarchist Gospel | A Dutch Review of Stirner’s Work | Anarchist Black Dragon | Max Stirner vs. Wahrheit-Sucher | “Celine Adele Marillier” | Pity and the Future | Max Stirner and the Grisette | Steven T. Byington’s Triple Score

2. Malfew Seklew  29

On “Bérnard’s Tour” | Minister Mocks Malfew  | Stern Critique of Christian Socialist  | Seklew Asks: Nietzsche to Blame?  | Social Aristocrat Socialist Secretary | A Freak Among Reformers  | No Guide for Anybody | Proletarians in Purgatory | No Justice for Malfew Seklew  | “We’re All More or Less Nutty” | Not Seeking Work  | Seklew Scolds Simpoleons, Supplies Sample Shilling Sericine Silk Set | No Detail Too Small!

3. Ragnar Redbeard   51

Redbeard in Canada | Desmond Selling George  | Give the New Hand a Show! | A.D. in the O.E.D.  | A Bogus Book | Australian Socialist Drinking Club | Redbeard’s Rough Stuff |“We Understand the Redbeard Philosophy” | Voima On Oikeus | Etc.

4. Dora Marsden  95

Dora Marsden for the Prosecution | The Freewomen of New York | Dora Marsden, unser aller Mutter  | Dora Marsden Ephemera | Rare Portraits

5. Benjamin DeCasseres   107

Emmeline Pankhurst | Pyrrhonism and Acatalepsy | Balzac | The Borrowed Mirror

6. Friedrich Nietzsche   117

Nietzsche and a Braille Stirner for Hellen Keller | “Will Nietzsche Come Into Vogue…” | The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche | Alexander Tille Reads Egoism

7. Enzo Martucci   135

A Sketch of Martucci | An Excerpt from The Red Sect | Martucci on Stirner

8. Free Spirits  159

Peter Lamborn Wilson Has Passed  | Hakim Bey: Real and Unreal | Vox Populi Vox Dei | Thompson at Rudolf Steiner Hall | Speakers’ Corner Anthology | Among the Anarchists | The True Comarade | Is This What You Call “Living?” | The Thirteenth Paragraph | Greeves Fisher, A Sketch | Dominance vs. Egoism | More Individualism | Individualism and Property | Why I am a Right-Wing Anarchist | Opening and Closing the Dil Pickle | Christmas a Joke! | “I” a poem  | “I GO” a poem| A Letter to the Editors of Freedom | Enrico Arrigoni Bibliography | Photo of Benjamin R. Tucker | About the Editors

ON TOUR

The Malfew Seklew Egoist-Socialist Propaganda Co.

Malfew Seklew, lecturer; Erwin McCall, advertising manager; J. W. Gott, treasurer; W. Barrie, secretary. MALFEW SEKLEW, the New Apostle of the New Gospel, the New Crusader of Egoistic Socialism, the Originator of Immoral Socialism, the Inventor of the New Method of Propagating the New Thought of New Socialism, and the Expounder of the New Individualism and Scientific Egoism, will lecture, Sunday next and following Sunday, on Glasgow Green, at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Babes and sucklings, creeplings and christlings, stay away. All others invited. No collection. Discussion open to anybody on two legs–of the genus homo. First spasm: “Altruism Crucified.” Second spasm: “The Missing Link in the Solution of the Social Problem.” Third spasm: “Why Socialism Does Not Grow / Egoism the Dawn of Liberty.” Hear Malfew Seklew, the iconoclastic, atheistic, hedonistic and egoistic Socialist, with Anarchist proclivities, tell the tale; and see Mrs. Grundy sobbing bitterly as this freak among reformers unclothes his thoughts in the open air. £20 offered to the first logical refutation of the arguments advanced in the article “Egoism: Conscious and Unconscious.” £2 will be given to the best answer to same. See Eagle and Serpent for September, 2d. post free. Read Liberty Luminants, the New Bible for Reformers, 72 pages, 3d. post free. Apply to W. Barrie c/o D. Baxter, 126, Trongate, Glasgow.

I am enclosing the first issue of a boot-leg publication called the Clarion. L. J. Shapiro is a contractor, sympathizer but not an anarchist. He made available sufficient funds for the first three issues. Archie Turner was formerly with Havel on [illegible] Gordin, you know. Amedy Chappeau is a French comrade, an individualist and always considered a dependable comrade. I understand he has merely lent his name to give the Clarion some reason to be. Malfew Seklew is a street fakir with a flair for alliterative sentences. He claims to have been a follower of Kropotkin’s for more than 30 years until he found out how much more he knew than Peter and what damn fools and underdeveloped organisms the anarchists are when he decided that nothing matters but the ego and that the greatest social system man has ever devised is the capitalist system which provides bread and luxuries for hordes too dumb to provide it for themselves. Therefore if 30 capitalists would quit business tomorrow, the whole working class would starve within the next week. He is something over seventy and draws an old age pension from the State of NY, which may have something to do with his defense of capitalism! Anyhow no one takes him seriously except A. Gordin and A. Turner. But he is one of the sponsors of the Clarion. As to its contents, they speak for themselves.

Union of Egoist Note: the letter immediately following this one is Emma Goldman’s statement of earnings from Living My Life, published by Alfred A. Knopf.

What follows was a WONDERFUL surprise to me, as it is an absolutely SAVAGE assault on the church and the state, advocating for strict taxation of all churches.

-Kevin I. Slaughter

KEPT
by Benjamin DeCassers
as published in The Clarion | Vol. I – No. 7-8. | March-April 1933

The oldest and most placidly accepted lie about ourselves is that in this country there is no liaison between the State and the Church. They are “divorced”, to use the old cliché.

In reality, they are not divorced because they were never legally married. Uncle Sam is, and always has been, a bachelor—some impolite commentators would say a bachelor verging toward the sere and senile. And, like all professional and incurable bachelors, he has his flock of chisellers and gold-diggers.

Uncle Sam is, in fact, Sugar-Daddy to the oldest and most remorselessly prehensile courtesan in the world—the Church. By absolving her billions of dollars of taxation—mainly thru fear of political reprisals—she lives in a secure and decaying splendor that the most wanton of the classic chippies would have envied.

This physically, mentally and spiritually childless old trollop, the Church, goes scot-free of any responsibility whatever. The whole country may go to pot—but not this old wench. She has more than four billion dollars worth of tax-free property in her name. Nothing can happen to her while Sugar-Daddy Sam crooks the knee before her.

She rules the household of her Sugar-Daddy as completely as Nell Gwynn ruled the court of Charles II. Her fingers are stuck in all his pies—legislative, economic. educational, cultural and political. She prescribes what Uncle Sam should and should not drink and in many. States the rules of private fornication and divorce.
When this ageless taxless Moll knocks on any of the doors of Sugar-Daddy Sam he cringes and quakes. No voice is ever raised against her in Congress or in the prints. She claims, and receives, privileges, that no other American citizen enjoys, for her ballyhooing parasites—the priests, rabbis and parsons.

She lives on the moth-blown fiction that she is a spiritual and educational necessity, that she distributes vast largesses of ethical and God-begotten manna to the Sugar-Daddy’s children, some 120,000,000 veritable bastards if they can stand for this colossal graft much longer while taxes are mounting and the national budget can’t make ends meet. She even cries out that her Sugar-Daddy would go to pieces like an old ga-ga doodlesack if she didn’t feed him with her pious boob-porridge. In her old withered bosom the Church nurses one dear thought—the hope of some day, when we are all quite down and out, reviving the glories of her youth, of again making the State her pimp. And what a pimp this Sugar-Daddy would be if she ever got a mediaeval stranglehold on him! What golden pickings! The Whore of Babylon would be a little Eva in comparison.

Receiving 100 per cent protection from national, State and City laws, enjoying all the benefits for which the rest of the people have to pay in taxes and sweat, the Church gives nothing in return except tax-free and half-fare pick-plates, evangelists with
the minds of soda jerkers, paid snoop-snouts, Lord’s Day Alliance nose slitters, boards of castration, sweet-scented choir-boys of morality, bucket-shop bishops, political badgers, blackmailers of legislative bodies. drooling anti-theater, anti-liquor and anti-sex bawlers, anti-evolution and anti-cultural Torquemadas, and watch and Ward muzzlers.

The Church has representation without taxation. It is a vast business and political organization, with hoards, lobbyists and salesmen. It has been estimated that if the Church was taxed it could yield above $200,000,000 annually, No one believes any longer that the Church has the importance of those other tax free institutions. She has
grown immensely rich on special privilege, She never had any official or Constitutional standing in this country, She is left alone because the Sugar-Daddy is stricken with mortal fear when he even thinks of bringing her under the holding of private property in this country, and as such should be taxed.

The kept old lady should be made to cough up into the common kitty.

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