title: The Ego And His Own: The Case Of The Individual Against Authority (Radical Thinkers)
author:  Max Stirner 
description: &ldquo;The most revolutionary book ever published&#160;&hellip;&#160;[Stirner]&#160;has left behind him a veritable Breviary of Destruction, a striking and dangerous book. It is dangerous in every sense of the word&mdash;to socialism, to politicians, to hypocrisy. But it asserts the dignity of the Individual, not his debasement.&rdquo; &mdash;<i>New York Times</i><br> <i>&#160;</i><br> &ldquo;You will have heard of Stirner's book, <i>The Ego and His Own</i> ... And it is certainly true that we must first make a cause our own, egoistic cause ... we are communists out of egoism also, and it is out of egoism that we wish to be human beings, not mere individuals.&rdquo; &mdash;Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx, 19 November 1844
zlib_text: Max Stirner - Stirner’s Critics
  “If you take just one sacred interest 
  to heart, you’ll be caught and duped 
  about your own interests. Call the 
  interest that you follow now sacred, and 
  tomorrow you will be its slave.
      All behavior toward anything 
  considered absolutely interesting, or 
  valuable in and for itself, is religious 
  behavior or, more simply, religion. 
  The interesting can only be interesting 
  through your interest, the valuable can 
  only have value insofar as you give 
  it value, whereas, on the other hand, 
  what is interesting despite you is an 
  uninteresting thing, what is valuable 
  despite you is a valueless thing.
  ...
  … the self-interest of the unique, 
  thus your self-interest, gets trampled 
  underfoot precisely in the sacred, or 
  human, world, and this same world, 
  which Hess and Szeliga for example, 
  reproach as being egoist, on the 
  contrary has bound the egoist to the 
  whipping post for thousands of years 
  and fanatically sacrificed egoism to 
  every ‘sacred’ thin