Why is Max Stirner so much popular on Veeky Forums?

Why is Max Stirner so much popular on Veeky Forums?

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>extremely memeable picture
>spook is a funny word

Memeable.
Easy to not read/understand him.
Easy to read/understand him.
Only need to read 1 short book.
Cool pics.
Hollow sense of smug superiority.
Spoogs.

You can disregard all arguments from your opponent with one word: spooks.

intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor

just look how fucking cool he is

In general, to quote SEP, "In the 1960s and early 1970s, Stirner was rediscovered as a forerunner of existentialism, whose anti-essentialist concept of the self as a ‘creative nothing’ had affinities with the notion of human nature employed by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). More recently, Stirner has been identified as a nascent poststructuralist (linked not least with Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)), rejecting the idea of a universal human nature, employing a genealogical critique of humanist discourses of power and identity, and opposing various forms of state-centric thought. It would be a mistake to deny that these parallels can be plausible and interesting. However, they might well seem to reflect changing historical enthusiasms as much as they accurately capture aspects of Stirner's philosophical and political thought."

He also was an adversary to Marx and Marx's criticism of Stirner forced him to reconsider/elaborate on some of his arguments. His book also caused a stir in Left-wing Hegelians too.

Why does Veeky Forums like him? For edginess and for the sake of being contrarian I'd guess.

plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/

*forced Marx, not Stirner

He was popular sure but over the past few months or so he kindo' disappeared. Has his proselyte been busy in other spheres?

funny thing is most people on here didn't understand it

A low level of discourse among Veeky Forums's leftists (and rightwingers too on /pol/)

smug
meme

You get to shit on almost everyone else's ideas of value really easily. Also, many people on this website are naturally egoists

“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”

“Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it.”

“All things are Nothing to Me”

“For only he who is alive is in the right.”

"The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!"

This is why

Veeky Forums incarnate
>not shitposting and triggering the fuck out of everyone

>Hey dude, Is that your car over there?
>Yeah, why?
>It's mine now
wow so deep

Veeky Forums is right about some things.

>wow so deep
Like my dick inside a trap's ass :DDDD

>highly decorated milk shop

place's full of cucks

These mostly. Also Veeky Forums's always had a soft spot for anarchism (anomalous expecto patronum)

huh. really makes me think

Because at some point Stirner was a perfect depiction of the comfy nihilist and smug attitude this website was all about before the influx of political normies

This, just like most of us here

I think most points have already been elaborated upon here, but I want to say again that his spook concept is 100% made for shitposting.
It takes zero effort and completely destroys every basis for arguing against it.
Also there is only one book which is filled with too much random nonsense already so it is quite easy to get the gist of it without actually reading it.

I really enjoy it. Its perfect for the current meme-age.

Because he's edgy and the drawings of him by Engels look cool.