Closereads: Marx on Stirner (Part One)

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Mark and Wes read through and discuss Karl Marx’s The German Ideology (1846), delving deep into the middle of his critique of Max Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own (recently covered on The Partially Examined Life ep. 358). Marx articulates and criticizes Stirner’s attempt to distinguish the mere common egoism of an unthinking person from the enlightened egoism that Stirner is recommending.

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Read along with us, starting on p. 259 (PDF p. 255).

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