Max Stirner's idea of the
union of Egoists (
German:
Verein von Egoisten), was first expounded in
The Ego and Its Own. The Union is understood as a non-systematic association, which Stirner proposed in contradistinction to the
state.
[5] The Union is understood as a relation between egoists which is continually renewed by all parties' support through an act of will.
[6] The Union requires that all parties participate out of a conscious egoism. If one party silently finds themselves to be suffering, but puts up and keeps the appearance, the union has degenerated into something else.
[6] This union is not seen as an
authority above a person's own will. This idea has received interpretations for politics, economics, romance and sex.
Stirner claimed that property comes about through might: "Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property". "What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing". "I do not step shyly back from your property, but look upon it always as my property, in which I respect nothing. Pray do the like with what you call my property!".
[7] His concept of "egoistic property" not only rejects moral restraint on how one obtains and uses
things, but includes other people as well.
[8]
Though Stirner's philosophy is individualist, it has influenced some
libertarian communists and
anarcho-communists. "For Ourselves Council for Generalized Self-Management" discusses Stirner and speaks of a "communist egoism", which is said to be a "synthesis of individualism and collectivism" and says that "greed in its fullest sense is the only possible basis of communist society".
[9] Forms of
libertarian communism such as
insurrectionary anarchism are influenced by Stirner.
[10][11] Anarcho-communist
Emma Goldman was influenced by both Stirner and
Peter Kropotkin and blended their philosophies together in her own.
[12]
And no... i`m not 3rd position... I just don`t agree with the notion of government.
