Socialism is but the further screwing up of the State machine to limit the individual.
James Huneker, in Egoists: A Book of Supermen (1913), p. 364.
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James Huneker
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Reagan and Goldwater
On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan delivered a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater, thereby launching Reagan’s political career. The speech came to be known as “A Time for Choosing.”
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Max Stirner
What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.
Max Stirner, Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum translated by Steven T. Byington (1907).
Illustration of Stirner by Friedrich Engels, modified.
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Continental Congress
On October 26, 1774, the first Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exactly one year later, King George III of Great Britain went before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion. And one year later yet, to the day, in 1776, septuagenerian Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France, seeking financial support for the American Revolution.
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James Huneker
No man with a face capable of a hundred shades of expression can be ugly.
James Huneker, a portrait of “A Sentimental Education: Henry Beyle — Stendhal” [pictured above], in Egoists: A Book of Supermen (1913), p. 2.
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Max Stirner
On October 25, 1806, the German philosopher Max Stirner was born. Stirner was known for his radical individualism, which under the name of “egoism” became culturally chic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, a major work that was famously attacked by Karl Marx, he translated Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations into German.
Der Einzige und sein Eigentum has been translated into English as The Ego and Its Own and The Ego and His Own.
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Thirty Years’ War
On October 24, 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
Alas, if man is blind, shall his misfortune be also his crime? I may have mistaken the voice of reason; but never, knowingly, have I rejected its authority.
C. F. Volney, The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires (1793; second English-language edition, the Philadelphia translation, 1802).
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Townhall: Once and Futures Queen
Click on over to Townhall for the Big Story: The ascension to the throne of the most ruthless and corrupt royal of our time, Hillary Clinton. Then come back here for more info.
- National Review: Herd Instincts
- The Atlantic: From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer
- New York Times: William Safire’s “Blizzard of Lies”
- ChicagoTribune: An ‘extremely careless’ Hillary Clinton: The FBI’s damning non-indictment
- PolitiFact: Video shows tarmac welcome, no snipers
- YouTube: Bosnia Landing shows no ‘Sniper Fire’
- YouTube: Bosnia Landing under Enemy Attack
- New York Times: Memo Places Hillary Clinton At Core of Travel Office Case
- NBC News: Tim Kaine—Clinton Wants to be the ‘You’re Hired’ President
- Daily Mail (UK): I cannot tell a lie! Clinton says she’s ‘always TRIED’ to tell the truth to the American people (honest) – prompting wave of Republican ridicule
- Washington Post: Kathleen Parker’s “Hillary Clinton’s historical problem with honesty”
- Washington Post: Then-CNN contributor Donna Brazile to Clinton camp: Sometimes ‘I get the questions in advance’
- WikiLeaks: From time to time I get the questions in advance
- BleachBit: BleachBit “stifles investigation” of Hillary Clinton
On October 23, 1850, the first National Women’s Rights Convention began in Worcester, Massachusetts.
On the same October date 106 years later, thousands of Hungarians rose up against Soviet rule.