Comrade Question of the Day: For my comrades who happen to be Marxist Leninist or MLM, do you believe Egoism is a Fascist philosophy or ideology?
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I'm referring to the Stirner variety, bc it is the original and most pervasive and bc they are explicitly anti-capitalist and see themselves as leftist. Clearly people like Benjamin Tucker aren't comrades
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Tucker's not that bad though lol Stirner makes it clear that the State is incompatible with egoism since a necessary component of the State is morality and morality denies the validity of egoistic desires. Or at least that's what it seems he was saying.
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Which seems to me excludes it from being any form of fascism. I ask the question because a ML mutual of mine accused another mutual of mine of mine of being a fascist for sharing egoist literature but I've never seen that be an ML position previously
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The problem is that fascists have and do appropriate Stirner's project and until more recently, most of the online Stirnerites have had right-wing and fascist tendencies. But more and more we're seeing leftoid and socialist/communist egoists popping up.
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That is news to me. With the only egotists I've ever met being through twitter. I've only exclusively seen them describe themselves as leftist, anarchist and fiercely anti-capitalist
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