The Fundamentals of Egoist Criticism Pt. I
Contradiction Pt. I: Personal Empowerment vs. Cultural Liberation
First of all…what I mean when I say society is this: „imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy“ (see bell hooks, Feminism is for everybody)
Now…
This essay series is an attempt to turn Max Stirner’s Dialectical Egoism into a type of social, cultural, literary, and political critique, which addresses the problem of „imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy“ i.e. society, while maintaining a focus on individuality and avoiding „easy“ or „unstable“ solutions like Marxist, Socialist, collectivist, liberal, conservative, fascist, traditionalist or Communist approaches.
To do so, I will first explain why such a new form of critique is necessary, by outlining various contradictions that cannot be aligned or subverted, if the mode of living we continue choosing is the supposedly democratic, collectivist, imperialist, white supremacist, patriarchal social-capitalism (or whatever you wanna call it).
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