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A German philosopher, Stirner is the great reference of egoist anarchism, rejecting state, morality, and institutions as oppressive abstractions and placing the sovereign individual and their interests at the center of everything.
Political axes
Max Stirner leans further toward liberty than 99% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Power is where Max Stirner stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Max Stirner sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Current founded by Max Stirner in The Ego and Its Own (1844), which rejects the state, morality, religion and rights as spooks and proposes voluntary unions of egoists who associate only while it serves them.
Current that advocates free markets, deregulation, privatization, and fiscal discipline, reducing the state's economic role and trusting competition and monetary stability as engines of prosperity.
Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
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An Objectivist psychologist, Branden was Ayn Rand's collaborator and a pioneer of the psychology of self-esteem, uniting Objectivism with the appreciation of reason, individualism, and personal responsibility in mental life.
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A small state in the northeastern United States, New Hampshire is known for its strong libertarian culture, low taxation, absence of a state income tax, and a motto that exalts liberty above all.
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During the Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
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