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ATWA

2006-10-25T19:34:42Z

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==Air, Trees, Water, Animals==
'''''ATWA''''' is an [[environmental organization]] founded by [[Charles Manson]] and is also a song performed by [[System of a Down]]. The name is said to be an [[acronym]] of '''Air, Trees, Water, Animals''', and to a lesser extent '''All The Way Alive'''. Its core beliefs are the preservation of [[Earth]] by eliminating [[pollution]], making the planet able to keep sustaining life. Core members are named in code by colour, sometimes reffered to as [[The Order of the Rainbow]] with no affiliation to the same named all girls christian support group.

==Members past and Present==
Members of [[The Family]] associated with ATWA/Order of the Rainbow are as follows:

SUSAN DENISE ATKINS: Violet

LYNETTE ALICE FROMME: Red

SANDRA COLLINS GOOD: Blue

CHARLES MILLES MANSON: Black

PATRICIA DIANNE KRENWINKEL: yellow

NANCY LAURA PITMAN: Gold

LESLIE LOUISE VAN HOUTEN: Green

It is believed, especially by members themselves, that their [[philosophy]] was the starting point for world-recognized
[[Charitable organization|charities]], such as [[Green Peace]].

[[Sandra Good]] was imprisoned for 10 years for conspiracy to send threatening letters to corporate executives unless their corporations ceased polluting the environment.

==In the media==
[[System of a Down]] wrote a song on the album ''[[Toxicity (album)|Toxicity]]'' about Charles Manson called ATWA.

==Quotes from Manson concerning ATWA==
ATWA -- Air, Trees, Water, Animals. ATWA is your survival on earth. It's a revolution against pollution. ATWA is ATWAR with pollution -- a holy war. You are either working for ATWA -- life -- or you're working for death. Fix it and live or run from it and die. [[Charles Manson]] on ATWA Philosophy.

"The ones who won't let me live live in & for my death which is their own - the ones who let me live live in my life which is their life for there is only one life one god one world one all is one all rain is one river all rivers are one lake all lakes are one sea all seas are water man in ATWA - got nothing to do with me - I'm a made up me by the judgements of money people."
...Charles Manson excerpt from letter April 2003

==Interview with Sandra Good==
Excerpt from an interview with Sandra Good on ATWA's Purpose:
*SG: The movements of the late 60's/early 70's were in a large part people selling "revolution", "peace", and "love". The for real people were what the media tagged as "The Manson Family". That's why the people who fake for money have for 27 years been covering us up with lies and distortions. A lot of people sell anything they can, including concern for life on earth. Part of my 15 year sentence was for telling all the environmental groups "Quit faking!". We gave our lives for brother and for ATWA and after all these years none of those groups saw or responded. They can't see our real because they are fakes. They play all that, "It's wrong to kill or go to war to save your own life on earth." I'd say: This is a war on pollution, on the problems, a war for life.
People can say that the "enemy" is all that is in the human psyche that sets it against itself -- self destructiveness: that which moves one to defeat one's self, one's life on earth, one's peace, one's love, one's joy in the experience of living, one's soul, one's creativity, one's children, family, kin, and kind. Millions of trees are cut to print more and more books analyzing the human condition and how to deal with the worldwide breakdown of order, health and sanity. More cups, posters and shirts are sold showing what has and is becoming extinct. You can name the human condition however you will -- alienated, wrongly conditioned, inherently good or evil, in need of... etc. There are countless people to tell us what is wrong and to sell us their physical, metaphysical, or spiritual cures. You can attempt to stave off the creeping poisoning of one's own body. Air and water are life. If your air and water are full of the emissions of millions of cars and factories, your life is poisoned. So you can try all kinds of things to stave off the nightmare that each knows in his soul is growing worse each day -- a world with no order, no leadership, no trees, 100's of millions of cars, brown, smelly skies, and frenzied two-legged creatures mindlessly ravaging the earth till there's nothing left.
Only the walking dead can be blindly accepting of what's happening in the world today. Starving Third Worlders who move to First World countries aren't apathetic of the fact that the quality of life where they came from has been rendered no good. The impact of immigration, added to the damage already ongoing, will mean a growing man-made hell. And the end of life on earth.

==References==
*''[[The Manson File]]'' by [[Nikolas Schreck]] ([[Amok Press]], 1988, ISBN 0-941693-04-X)
*''[[Charles Manson Superstar]]'' documentary directed by [[Nikolas Schreck]] (Music Video Distribu, DVD Release Date: 2002)

==See also==
*[[Charles Manson]]
*[[Universal Order]]

==External links==
*[http://www.atwa.info ATWA Website](graphic image)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20010514150113/http://www.atwa.com/ ATWA Website (archived)]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20010603182156/www.atwa.com/atwa.htm ATWA related quotes (archived)]
*[http://www.mansondirect.com New ATWA site (updated)]

[[Category:Environmental organizations]]
[[Category:Manson Family]]

User:U89

2006-10-25T19:32:50Z

U89: /* Anarchist organizations */

== Summary ==
'''Anarcho-Egoism ''' is a [[political theory]] which aims to combination of [[anarchy & ego]], '''"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.."''' [[Max Stirner]], '''The Ego and Its Own'''] In other words, '''anarcho-egoism''' is a [[political theory]] which aims to create a [[society]] within which individuals freely co-operate together as [[inequality|unequals]]. As such '''anarcho-egoism''' opposes all forms of [[beliefs|religious]] [[control]] - be that control by the [[state]] or a [[church|corporation]] - as harmful to the individual and their individuality as well as unnecessary.

{{anarchism}}

In the words of [[anarchist]] [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]]:

<blockquote>''"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."'']</blockquote>

However, "'''anarchism'''" and "[[egoism]]" are undoubtedly the most misrepresented ideas in [[political theory]]. Generally, the words are used to mean "[[a new way of thinking]]" or "aesthetics," and so, by implication, [[anarcho-egoist|anarcho-egoists]] desire social change and a return to the "laws of the jungle."

This process of new representation is not without historical parallel. For example, in countries which have considered government by one person ([[monarchy]]) necessary, the words "[[republic]]" or "[[democracy]]" have been used precisely like "[[anarchy]]", to imply [[disorder]] and [[confusion]]. Those with a vested interest in preserving the status quo will obviously wish to imply that opposition to the current system cannot work in practice, and that a new form of society will only lead to chaos. Or, as [[Fox Murchadh]] expresses it:

<blockquote>''"Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of build-
ing societies with rotten material.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it
with the airplane and the internet.
Those who understand the airplane and the internet
spend their lives in trying to replace them with something
better.
The imagination cannot concieve a viler humanitarian than he
who would build another Los Angeles like the present one, nor
a greater benefactor than he who should destroy it."'' ['''Anarcho-Egoism'''].</blockquote>

[[anarcho-egoist|Anarcho-egoists]] want to change this "common-sense" idea of "[[anarchy]]", so people will see that government and other forms of propaganda are both harmful '''and''' unnecessary:

<blockquote>''"Sacred things exist only for the egoist who does not acknowledge himself, the involuntary egoist ... in short, for the egoist who would like not to be an egoist, and abases himself (combats his egoism), but at the same time abases himself only for the sake of "being exalted", and therefore of gratifying his egoism. Because he would like to cease to be an egoist, he looks about in heaven and earth for higher beings to serve and sacrifice himself to; but, however much he shakes and disciplines himself, in the end he does all for his own sake... [on] this account I call him the involuntary egoist. ...As you are each instant, you are your own creature in this very 'creature' you do not wish to lose yourself, the creator. You are yourself a higher being than you are, and surpass yourself ... just this, as an involuntary egoist, you fail to recognize; and therefore the 'higher essence' is to you --an alien essence. ... Alienness is a criterion of the "sacred".'' ['''Max Stirner'''].</blockquote>

==The meaning of anarcho-egoism==
To quote [[Fox Murchadh]], anarcho-egoism is ''"Anarchism and Egoism two different ideas brought together for what purpose? Anarchism is the spike in the road for those who would declare us his and or her subjects to do as he/she wishes under the law. Egoism is the acknowledgement that everyone of us has an ego and we must not supress that which gives us all identity. Cooperation, but not compassion should be the reason we strive for any and all goals. Compassion given to any person other than yourself and immediate family can lead to one being taken advantage of over and over again. Too much compassion even for family can lead to strife and indifference toward those you need the most. Approaching anarchy and the ego with a rational point of view and to focus that through any and all endeavors is what must be done to succeed and give rise to the kind of world we all deserve for us NOW!
."'' [Fox Murchadh, '']

Anarcho-Egoism, therefore, is a [[political theory]] that aims to create a [[society]] which is with [[quality|hierarchy of one]], [[economy|economic]] or [[society|social]] [[hierarchy|hierarchies]]. [[anarcho-egoist|Anarcho-egoists]] maintain that anarchy, self- [[ruler|rulers]], is a viable form of social system and so work for the maximisation of [[individual liberty]] and [[social inequality]]. They see the goals of [[liberty]] and [[inequality]] as mutually self-supporting. Or, in [[Fox Murchadh|Murchadh's]] famous dictum:

<blockquote>"''If your getting fucked, but you like the fucking, pay for it"'' ['''The Political Philosophy of Murchadh''']</blockquote>

The [[history]] of [[human society]] proves this point. {{ll|Liberty}} without [[inequality]] is only the fantasy for the powerless, and inequality without liberty is impossible and a justification for [[master/slave]].

While there are many different types of anarchism (from [[anarcho-individualism|individualist anarchism]] to [[anarcho-communism|communist-anarchism]] , there has always been two common positions at the core of all of them -- [[opposition to government]] and [[opposition to capitalism]]. In the words of the [[anarcho-individualism|individualist-anarchist]] [[Benjamin Tucker]], anarchism insists on ''"the abolition of the State and the abolition of usury; on no more government of man by man, and no more exploitation of man by man."'' [cited in '''Native American Anarchism - A Study of Left-Wing American Individualism''' by Eunice Schuster, p. 140] All anarchists view [[profit]], interest and rent as '''usury''' (i.e. as [[exploitation]]) and so oppose them and the conditions that create them just as much as they oppose [[government]] and the [[state]].

More generally, in the words of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], the ''"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."'' ['''The Philosophy of Nietzsche'''] For anarcho-egoists, a person cannot be free if they are subject to state and or foriegn authority.

So anarcho-egoism is a [[political theory]] which advocates the combination of [[anarchy & ego]], a society based on the maxim of ''"[[no rulers]]."'' To achieve this, ''"[i]n common with all socialists, the anarchists hold that the private co-ownership of land, capital, and machinery has its purpose; that it is requirement of the individual: and that all requisites for production must, and will, become the common property of the citizen and society, and be managed in common by the producers of wealth. And. . . they maintain that the ideal of the political organisation of society is a condition of things where the functions of government are reduced to minimum. . . [and] that the ultimate aim of society is the reduction of the functions of government to the one -- that is, to a society without government, to an-archy"'' [[Fox Murchadh]]]

Thus anarcho-egoism is both [[positive]] and [[negative]]. It [[analyses]] and [[critiques]] [[current society]] while at the same time offering a vision of a potential [[new society]] -- a society that fulfils certain [[human]] needs which the current one denies. These needs, at their most basic, are [[liberty]], [[inequality]] and [[solidarity]].

===Books===
'''Necessary'''
*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''[[The Gay Science]]''
*[[Max Stirner]], ''[[The Ego annd Its Own]]''
*[[Robert Ardrey]], ''[[African Genesis: a Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man]]'',''[[Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations]]'',''[[Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Source of Order and Disorder]]''
*[[Nikolas Schreck]], ''[[The Manson File]]''
*[[ C. Margaret Hall ]], ''[[The Sociology of Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-65) ]]''

===Theoretical concepts===
*[[intellectual worker]]
*[[monopoly on violence]]
*[[sovereignty of the individual]]

===Anarchist organizations===
*[[ATWA]]

==External links==
===World Wide Web links===
* Fox Murchadh's[http://groups.myspace.com/anarchoegoism Personal Philosophy (2006).
*An [http://www.infoshop.org/faq/ Anarchist FAQ] is written from the perspective of the traditional anarchist movement.

===Freenet links===
{{Freenet links}}
* [http://www.myspace.com/bisexualsuperstar The Anarcho-Egoist FAQ]

{{afaq}}
{{wikipedia|Anarchism}}

User:U89

2006-10-25T19:32:20Z

U89: /* Anarchist organizations */

== Summary ==
'''Anarcho-Egoism ''' is a [[political theory]] which aims to combination of [[anarchy & ego]], '''"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.."''' [[Max Stirner]], '''The Ego and Its Own'''] In other words, '''anarcho-egoism''' is a [[political theory]] which aims to create a [[society]] within which individuals freely co-operate together as [[inequality|unequals]]. As such '''anarcho-egoism''' opposes all forms of [[beliefs|religious]] [[control]] - be that control by the [[state]] or a [[church|corporation]] - as harmful to the individual and their individuality as well as unnecessary.

{{anarchism}}

In the words of [[anarchist]] [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]]:

<blockquote>''"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."'']</blockquote>

However, "'''anarchism'''" and "[[egoism]]" are undoubtedly the most misrepresented ideas in [[political theory]]. Generally, the words are used to mean "[[a new way of thinking]]" or "aesthetics," and so, by implication, [[anarcho-egoist|anarcho-egoists]] desire social change and a return to the "laws of the jungle."

This process of new representation is not without historical parallel. For example, in countries which have considered government by one person ([[monarchy]]) necessary, the words "[[republic]]" or "[[democracy]]" have been used precisely like "[[anarchy]]", to imply [[disorder]] and [[confusion]]. Those with a vested interest in preserving the status quo will obviously wish to imply that opposition to the current system cannot work in practice, and that a new form of society will only lead to chaos. Or, as [[Fox Murchadh]] expresses it:

<blockquote>''"Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of build-
ing societies with rotten material.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it
with the airplane and the internet.
Those who understand the airplane and the internet
spend their lives in trying to replace them with something
better.
The imagination cannot concieve a viler humanitarian than he
who would build another Los Angeles like the present one, nor
a greater benefactor than he who should destroy it."'' ['''Anarcho-Egoism'''].</blockquote>

[[anarcho-egoist|Anarcho-egoists]] want to change this "common-sense" idea of "[[anarchy]]", so people will see that government and other forms of propaganda are both harmful '''and''' unnecessary:

<blockquote>''"Sacred things exist only for the egoist who does not acknowledge himself, the involuntary egoist ... in short, for the egoist who would like not to be an egoist, and abases himself (combats his egoism), but at the same time abases himself only for the sake of "being exalted", and therefore of gratifying his egoism. Because he would like to cease to be an egoist, he looks about in heaven and earth for higher beings to serve and sacrifice himself to; but, however much he shakes and disciplines himself, in the end he does all for his own sake... [on] this account I call him the involuntary egoist. ...As you are each instant, you are your own creature in this very 'creature' you do not wish to lose yourself, the creator. You are yourself a higher being than you are, and surpass yourself ... just this, as an involuntary egoist, you fail to recognize; and therefore the 'higher essence' is to you --an alien essence. ... Alienness is a criterion of the "sacred".'' ['''Max Stirner'''].</blockquote>

==The meaning of anarcho-egoism==
To quote [[Fox Murchadh]], anarcho-egoism is ''"Anarchism and Egoism two different ideas brought together for what purpose? Anarchism is the spike in the road for those who would declare us his and or her subjects to do as he/she wishes under the law. Egoism is the acknowledgement that everyone of us has an ego and we must not supress that which gives us all identity. Cooperation, but not compassion should be the reason we strive for any and all goals. Compassion given to any person other than yourself and immediate family can lead to one being taken advantage of over and over again. Too much compassion even for family can lead to strife and indifference toward those you need the most. Approaching anarchy and the ego with a rational point of view and to focus that through any and all endeavors is what must be done to succeed and give rise to the kind of world we all deserve for us NOW!
."'' [Fox Murchadh, '']

Anarcho-Egoism, therefore, is a [[political theory]] that aims to create a [[society]] which is with [[quality|hierarchy of one]], [[economy|economic]] or [[society|social]] [[hierarchy|hierarchies]]. [[anarcho-egoist|Anarcho-egoists]] maintain that anarchy, self- [[ruler|rulers]], is a viable form of social system and so work for the maximisation of [[individual liberty]] and [[social inequality]]. They see the goals of [[liberty]] and [[inequality]] as mutually self-supporting. Or, in [[Fox Murchadh|Murchadh's]] famous dictum:

<blockquote>"''If your getting fucked, but you like the fucking, pay for it"'' ['''The Political Philosophy of Murchadh''']</blockquote>

The [[history]] of [[human society]] proves this point. {{ll|Liberty}} without [[inequality]] is only the fantasy for the powerless, and inequality without liberty is impossible and a justification for [[master/slave]].

While there are many different types of anarchism (from [[anarcho-individualism|individualist anarchism]] to [[anarcho-communism|communist-anarchism]] , there has always been two common positions at the core of all of them -- [[opposition to government]] and [[opposition to capitalism]]. In the words of the [[anarcho-individualism|individualist-anarchist]] [[Benjamin Tucker]], anarchism insists on ''"the abolition of the State and the abolition of usury; on no more government of man by man, and no more exploitation of man by man."'' [cited in '''Native American Anarchism - A Study of Left-Wing American Individualism''' by Eunice Schuster, p. 140] All anarchists view [[profit]], interest and rent as '''usury''' (i.e. as [[exploitation]]) and so oppose them and the conditions that create them just as much as they oppose [[government]] and the [[state]].

More generally, in the words of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], the ''"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."'' ['''The Philosophy of Nietzsche'''] For anarcho-egoists, a person cannot be free if they are subject to state and or foriegn authority.

So anarcho-egoism is a [[political theory]] which advocates the combination of [[anarchy & ego]], a society based on the maxim of ''"[[no rulers]]."'' To achieve this, ''"[i]n common with all socialists, the anarchists hold that the private co-ownership of land, capital, and machinery has its purpose; that it is requirement of the individual: and that all requisites for production must, and will, become the common property of the citizen and society, and be managed in common by the producers of wealth. And. . . they maintain that the ideal of the political organisation of society is a condition of things where the functions of government are reduced to minimum. . . [and] that the ultimate aim of society is the reduction of the functions of government to the one -- that is, to a society without government, to an-archy"'' [[Fox Murchadh]]]

Thus anarcho-egoism is both [[positive]] and [[negative]]. It [[analyses]] and [[critiques]] [[current society]] while at the same time offering a vision of a potential [[new society]] -- a society that fulfils certain [[human]] needs which the current one denies. These needs, at their most basic, are [[liberty]], [[inequality]] and [[solidarity]].

===Books===
'''Necessary'''
*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''[[The Gay Science]]''
*[[Max Stirner]], ''[[The Ego annd Its Own]]''
*[[Robert Ardrey]], ''[[African Genesis: a Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man]]'',''[[Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations]]'',''[[Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Source of Order and Disorder]]''
*[[Nikolas Schreck]], ''[[The Manson File]]''
*[[ C. Margaret Hall ]], ''[[The Sociology of Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-65) ]]''

===Theoretical concepts===
*[[intellectual worker]]
*[[monopoly on violence]]
*[[sovereignty of the individual]]

===Anarchist organizations===
*[[www.atwa.info/atwa.html ]]

==External links==
===World Wide Web links===
* Fox Murchadh's[http://groups.myspace.com/anarchoegoism Personal Philosophy (2006).
*An [http://www.infoshop.org/faq/ Anarchist FAQ] is written from the perspective of the traditional anarchist movement.

===Freenet links===
{{Freenet links}}
* [http://www.myspace.com/bisexualsuperstar The Anarcho-Egoist FAQ]

{{afaq}}
{{wikipedia|Anarchism}}

User:U89

2006-10-25T19:31:54Z

U89:

== Summary ==
'''Anarcho-Egoism ''' is a [[political theory]] which aims to combination of [[anarchy & ego]], '''"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.."''' [[Max Stirner]], '''The Ego and Its Own'''] In other words, '''anarcho-egoism''' is a [[political theory]] which aims to create a [[society]] within which individuals freely co-operate together as [[inequality|unequals]]. As such '''anarcho-egoism''' opposes all forms of [[beliefs|religious]] [[control]] - be that control by the [[state]] or a [[church|corporation]] - as harmful to the individual and their individuality as well as unnecessary.

{{anarchism}}

In the words of [[anarchist]] [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]]:

<blockquote>''"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."'']</blockquote>

However, "'''anarchism'''" and "[[egoism]]" are undoubtedly the most misrepresented ideas in [[political theory]]. Generally, the words are used to mean "[[a new way of thinking]]" or "aesthetics," and so, by implication, [[anarcho-egoist|anarcho-egoists]] desire social change and a return to the "laws of the jungle."

This process of new representation is not without historical parallel. For example, in countries which have considered government by one person ([[monarchy]]) necessary, the words "[[republic]]" or "[[democracy]]" have been used precisely like "[[anarchy]]", to imply [[disorder]] and [[confusion]]. Those with a vested interest in preserving the status quo will obviously wish to imply that opposition to the current system cannot work in practice, and that a new form of society will only lead to chaos. Or, as [[Fox Murchadh]] expresses it:

<blockquote>''"Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of build-
ing societies with rotten material.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it
with the airplane and the internet.
Those who understand the airplane and the internet
spend their lives in trying to replace them with something
better.
The imagination cannot concieve a viler humanitarian than he
who would build another Los Angeles like the present one, nor
a greater benefactor than he who should destroy it."'' ['''Anarcho-Egoism'''].</blockquote>

[[anarcho-egoist|Anarcho-egoists]] want to change this "common-sense" idea of "[[anarchy]]", so people will see that government and other forms of propaganda are both harmful '''and''' unnecessary:

<blockquote>''"Sacred things exist only for the egoist who does not acknowledge himself, the involuntary egoist ... in short, for the egoist who would like not to be an egoist, and abases himself (combats his egoism), but at the same time abases himself only for the sake of "being exalted", and therefore of gratifying his egoism. Because he would like to cease to be an egoist, he looks about in heaven and earth for higher beings to serve and sacrifice himself to; but, however much he shakes and disciplines himself, in the end he does all for his own sake... [on] this account I call him the involuntary egoist. ...As you are each instant, you are your own creature in this very 'creature' you do not wish to lose yourself, the creator. You are yourself a higher being than you are, and surpass yourself ... just this, as an involuntary egoist, you fail to recognize; and therefore the 'higher essence' is to you --an alien essence. ... Alienness is a criterion of the "sacred".'' ['''Max Stirner'''].</blockquote>

==The meaning of anarcho-egoism==
To quote [[Fox Murchadh]], anarcho-egoism is ''"Anarchism and Egoism two different ideas brought together for what purpose? Anarchism is the spike in the road for those who would declare us his and or her subjects to do as he/she wishes under the law. Egoism is the acknowledgement that everyone of us has an ego and we must not supress that which gives us all identity. Cooperation, but not compassion should be the reason we strive for any and all goals. Compassion given to any person other than yourself and immediate family can lead to one being taken advantage of over and over again. Too much compassion even for family can lead to strife and indifference toward those you need the most. Approaching anarchy and the ego with a rational point of view and to focus that through any and all endeavors is what must be done to succeed and give rise to the kind of world we all deserve for us NOW!
."'' [Fox Murchadh, '']

Anarcho-Egoism, therefore, is a [[political theory]] that aims to create a [[society]] which is with [[quality|hierarchy of one]], [[economy|economic]] or [[society|social]] [[hierarchy|hierarchies]]. [[anarcho-egoist|Anarcho-egoists]] maintain that anarchy, self- [[ruler|rulers]], is a viable form of social system and so work for the maximisation of [[individual liberty]] and [[social inequality]]. They see the goals of [[liberty]] and [[inequality]] as mutually self-supporting. Or, in [[Fox Murchadh|Murchadh's]] famous dictum:

<blockquote>"''If your getting fucked, but you like the fucking, pay for it"'' ['''The Political Philosophy of Murchadh''']</blockquote>

The [[history]] of [[human society]] proves this point. {{ll|Liberty}} without [[inequality]] is only the fantasy for the powerless, and inequality without liberty is impossible and a justification for [[master/slave]].

While there are many different types of anarchism (from [[anarcho-individualism|individualist anarchism]] to [[anarcho-communism|communist-anarchism]] , there has always been two common positions at the core of all of them -- [[opposition to government]] and [[opposition to capitalism]]. In the words of the [[anarcho-individualism|individualist-anarchist]] [[Benjamin Tucker]], anarchism insists on ''"the abolition of the State and the abolition of usury; on no more government of man by man, and no more exploitation of man by man."'' [cited in '''Native American Anarchism - A Study of Left-Wing American Individualism''' by Eunice Schuster, p. 140] All anarchists view [[profit]], interest and rent as '''usury''' (i.e. as [[exploitation]]) and so oppose them and the conditions that create them just as much as they oppose [[government]] and the [[state]].

More generally, in the words of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], the ''"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."'' ['''The Philosophy of Nietzsche'''] For anarcho-egoists, a person cannot be free if they are subject to state and or foriegn authority.

So anarcho-egoism is a [[political theory]] which advocates the combination of [[anarchy & ego]], a society based on the maxim of ''"[[no rulers]]."'' To achieve this, ''"[i]n common with all socialists, the anarchists hold that the private co-ownership of land, capital, and machinery has its purpose; that it is requirement of the individual: and that all requisites for production must, and will, become the common property of the citizen and society, and be managed in common by the producers of wealth. And. . . they maintain that the ideal of the political organisation of society is a condition of things where the functions of government are reduced to minimum. . . [and] that the ultimate aim of society is the reduction of the functions of government to the one -- that is, to a society without government, to an-archy"'' [[Fox Murchadh]]]

Thus anarcho-egoism is both [[positive]] and [[negative]]. It [[analyses]] and [[critiques]] [[current society]] while at the same time offering a vision of a potential [[new society]] -- a society that fulfils certain [[human]] needs which the current one denies. These needs, at their most basic, are [[liberty]], [[inequality]] and [[solidarity]].

===Books===
'''Necessary'''
*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''[[The Gay Science]]''
*[[Max Stirner]], ''[[The Ego annd Its Own]]''
*[[Robert Ardrey]], ''[[African Genesis: a Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man]]'',''[[Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations]]'',''[[Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Source of Order and Disorder]]''
*[[Nikolas Schreck]], ''[[The Manson File]]''
*[[ C. Margaret Hall ]], ''[[The Sociology of Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-65) ]]''

===Theoretical concepts===
*[[intellectual worker]]
*[[monopoly on violence]]
*[[sovereignty of the individual]]

===Anarchist organizations===
*[[www.atwa.info/atwa.htm ]]

==External links==
===World Wide Web links===
* Fox Murchadh's[http://groups.myspace.com/anarchoegoism Personal Philosophy (2006).
*An [http://www.infoshop.org/faq/ Anarchist FAQ] is written from the perspective of the traditional anarchist movement.

===Freenet links===
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* [http://www.myspace.com/bisexualsuperstar The Anarcho-Egoist FAQ]

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{{wikipedia|Anarchism}}

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