Fair enough, and I'm not that well read. Should I read The Unique and its Own as like, the Stirner, or is that like only reading The Communist Manifesto and avoiding other more detailed Marx & Engels works? I remember listening to a podcast with one of the Proles Counsel(?) people years ago that went by Dr. Bones and being simultaneously intrigued and offput by Stirner from that.
I think the Unique is a very personal read. I have this translation in dead tree form and it's quite readable, if dense in places. It's highly polemical, quite humorous, and it is a differentiating text in the way that most of the favored ML texts are: you can tell who has read the book and who has absorbed ambient memes without contemplation or understanding. Against His-story, Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman is another book like this.
Stirner's Critics could be a lighter investment in terms of time and effort. It's shorter, more focused, and a bit more direct since it's a response to critique (some of the same that persist to this day).
Dr. Bones is a well-known piece of shit, so I can't highly recommend them, but I read some of their writing before that became a known thing; I would say it's very colorful, if not especially illuminating. Often fun to read in a Hunter Thompson-y way, but I think that's the affect they're going for.
Fair enough, and I'm not that well read. Should I read The Unique and its Own as like, the Stirner, or is that like only reading The Communist Manifesto and avoiding other more detailed Marx & Engels works? I remember listening to a podcast with one of the Proles Counsel(?) people years ago that went by Dr. Bones and being simultaneously intrigued and offput by Stirner from that.
I think the Unique is a very personal read. I have this translation in dead tree form and it's quite readable, if dense in places. It's highly polemical, quite humorous, and it is a differentiating text in the way that most of the favored ML texts are: you can tell who has read the book and who has absorbed ambient memes without contemplation or understanding. Against His-story, Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman is another book like this.
Stirner's Critics could be a lighter investment in terms of time and effort. It's shorter, more focused, and a bit more direct since it's a response to critique (some of the same that persist to this day).
Dr. Bones is a well-known piece of shit, so I can't highly recommend them, but I read some of their writing before that became a known thing; I would say it's very colorful, if not especially illuminating. Often fun to read in a Hunter Thompson-y way, but I think that's the affect they're going for.
Thank you, will try those recommendations