/lit/ - Literature

A paragraph from pic related:
"A society invokes morality most vehemently in the sphere of crime and punishment. Stirner's anarchic rejection of social definitions of good and evil is a logical extension of his egoist thesis. What is particularly striking is his opposition to petty theft. He does not accept the liberal attitude that crime degrades the 'humanity' in man (again hte meaningless abstraction). The petty thief is too little an egoist, for he values an object for its prestige in another's eyes, rather than for its direct utility to him. He is the most pathetic victim of society because he accepts its morality and its property valuations: they excite in him socially legitimized aspirations which he cannot satisfy without breaking other laws."

>>8411910
reading pic related right now, it's pretty fucking good
it contrasts the liberal and marxist traditions of the late 1900s with an individualist one as read in the three writers mentioned in the title