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Now Available: Might Is Right: The Rebel Poetry of Covington Hall and His Satanic Lumberjacks

Might Is Right: The Rebel Poetry of Covington Hall and His Satanic Lumberjacks, Bombastic & Blasphemic Poetry from a Forgotten Labor Movement Edited and Introduced by Kevin I. Slaughter. Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Available from Underworld Amusements: https://underworldamusements.com/products/might-is-right-the-rebel-poetry-of-covington-hall Hail to the first of rebels! To the chieftain, strong and brave, Who sounded first the bugle-call of freedom to the slave! Who never yet has faltered through time’s long and dreary flight— Lucifer, the Morning Star, the splendid and the bright! This collection of poetry is largely culled from the three labor journals that Redbeard-inspired Wobbly activist Covington Hall edited […]

Stand Alone 1225: Max Stirner and the Philosophy of the Individual | Leo Markun & Jason Ramsay-Brown

Leo Markun provides a strong introduction to the history, life, and philosophy of Johann Caspar Schmidt, known professionally as Max Stirner, the father of Egoism. This long essay was first released in 1925 as part of the Little Blue Book series by the prolific publisher Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951). Available from Underworld Amusements This booklet was printed on a 1930s Linotype Letterpress by Michael E. Coughlin, editor and publisher of the anarchist journal the dandelion and co-editor of Benjamin R. Tucker and the Champions of Liberty (1987). Using 100 pound Starch Rain Speckletone by French Paper, and giving it a strong “bite” so that the reader can feel […]

Stand Alone: The Works of Benjamin DeCasseres | Three Volumes

In 1936 Benjamin DeCasseres took it upon himself to try to publish as much of his own work as he could. He paid for the printing himself through “Blackstone Publishers.” In the following three years he published 23 booklets resulting in over 1,200 pages of material. These booklets were bound into three volumes and released as The Works of Benjamin DeCasseres in a limited edition. This trilogy is being released as three issues of the Stand Alone journal project. This is a facsimile edition, with continuous folios and tables of contents added. Available from: Underworld Amusements Volume One 1. Exhibitionism: A New Theory of Evolution (1936) 2. The […]

Der Geist Issue 4 Now Available / Union of Egoists 5th Anniversary

The Union of Egoists website went live early 2016 but officially announced April 1st of that year. The entire chat of February 2nd, 2016 between Trevor Blake and myself that crystalized the idea was printed at the end of Der Geist Issue 1, and titled “A Unique Conversation”, published in the following year. Der Geist issue 4 is now available! That creates a total of 724 pages of egoism from 1845 to 1945, with “lost” works reprinted, new translations every issue, rare photos and images, and new research and writing. Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon.com | Amazon.UK | Barnes & Noble In this issue, a previously undiscovered […]

STAND ALONE SA1175 | Hyde Park Orator Illustrated | Bonar Thompson & Trevor Blake

“A cynic’s book that annoyed me.” – Leeds Mercury. Bonar Thompson, the famous Hyde Park Orator, delighted millions of listeners at the well-known meeting-ground for many years with his dramatic personality and oratorical flights. This book, which is the story of his life, is a veritable human document. Born in Ulster to poor parents, left to struggle for himself at an early age, lacking any formal education and obliged to labor in the fields. Bonar Thompson began quite early to exhibit those unusual qualities of mind and character that have made him the social rebel he is. He describes how he […]

Announcing “Der Geist: The Journal of Egoism from 1845 to 1945,” Issue 3!

The newest issue of Der Geist, the journal of historical Egoism, is here. Rare and unpublished works from the first century of egoism-the philosophy of Max Stirner. from: Underworld Amusements or from Amazon.com: US | MX | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT This issue of Der Geist includes rare reprints of egoist history. These include blow-by-blow accounts of Dora Marsden in her street-fighting phase, lost transcriptions of J. William Lloyd saved from the darkness by individualist feminist Wendy McElroy, the philosophical and physical wanderings of the laughing philosopher Malfew Seklew, and more. This issue of Der Geist also includes original inquiries into egoist history. These include a history of the Radical Book Shop of Chicago, and the […]

Union of Egoists Presents: With Claw and Fang by Bernie Babcock & Trevor Blake SA1135

Since its original publication in 1896, the influence of Might is Right has been found in curious places, from syndicalist broadsides of the IWW to the canonical texts of the Church of Satan, but perhaps the most surprising historical example of literary “Redbeardiana” traces to the puritanical paraphrasis of a largely forgotten American writer named Julia “Bernie” Babcock. Following the death of her husband in 1897, the 29-year-old Babcock turned to writing as a means of earning income for her large family. She found some early success and her work was championed by one of the oldest (still active) political parties in […]

A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960 — Suffragette, Egoist, Philosopher.

A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960 — Suffragette, Egoist, Philosopher.

The Union of Egoists is quite proud to announce a newly revised, expanded and corrected edition of Dr. Les Garner’s biography: A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960 SA1127, 6×9, 486 pages, ISBN: 978-1944651145 Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon.com | Amazon UK | Amazon IT | Amazon DE | Amazon JP Suffragette. Egoist. Philosopher. Dora Marsden (1882–1960) burst the chains keeping women from education; burst the chains keeping women from the vote; burst the chains of conservative feminism; burst the chains of philosophy, of time and of language. From her near-anonymous birth, to shouting down Winston Churchill, to pioneering publications, to condemnation to decades in a mental hospital, A Brave […]

Church of Satan Sigil of Baphomet

Union of Egoists on Patreon  Union of Egoists is a Historical, Biographical and Bibliographical website focused on Egoism as a philosophical movement explicitly beginning with Max Stirner. Click here to support the project on Patreon and access exclusive content include podcasts, book previews, commentary, and more. Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses—and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh— The project is primarily run and edited by Magister Kevin I. Slaughter and Trevor Blake and with the assistance of a few volunteers from time to time. The scope of the project has become larger than expected, and there […]