"Communism is quite incomprehensible to our saint because the communists do not oppose egoism to selflessness or selflessness to egoism, nor do they express this contradiction theoretically either in its sentimental or its high-flown ideological form; they rather demonstrate its material source, with which it disappears of itself. The communists do not preach morality at all, as Stirner does so extensively. They do not put to people the moral demand: love one another, do not be egoists, etc.; on the contrary, they are very well aware that egoism, just as much as selflessness, is in definite circumstances a necessary form of the self-assertion of individuals." -Marx, German Ideology “By taking away also property” (!) “the socialists do not take into account that its continuance is safeguarded by the peculiarities of human beings. Are only money and goods property, or is not every opinion also something that is mine, that belongs to me? Hence, every opinion must be abolished o...
In the 19th and 20th century, the mainstream science, after the discovery of the fact of biological evolution, became obsessed with applying the concept of evolution to human social groups. Evolution conceived of as a ladder of development, to their minds, became a master key to understanding all of the social and biological differences between various groups: rich and poor, races, men and women, respectable and criminal, etc. Everywhere one looked, there was a hierarchy of differences: uneven economic development between nations; differences in literacy and educational attainment between classes, and on and on. The conventional prejudice of white scientists was this: there is a natural hierarchy, with white men at the top, and a gradation of inferiority below the top superior group. "Rank-order" was the guiding principle of how scientists set out to explain the tree of life: there are higher and lower forms. Nature is not egalitarian, but has advanced -- thus superior -- li...