Chi cercasse in queste pagine di un Bakunin giovanissimo il rivoluzionario della maturità rimarrebbe deluso. Nessuno di noi rimane per sempre lo stesso, sarebbe un molotite idiota capace di ripetere sempre la medesima tesi, scelta una volta per tutte.
Della libertà di stampa si suole mettere in rilievo soltanto un lato, quello che essa è la libertà di parola, e si trascura completamente l’altro, quello cioè che per mezzo di tale libertà viene assicurata la altrettanto inalienabile libertà di ascoltare. La censura non si limita a imporre il giogo alla libertà di parlare, ma sopprime anche la libertà di udire. Sicuro, essa, mentre sopprimendo la libertà di parola non toglie la loro libertà a tutti i parlatori, ma specialmente ai governanti permette di dire ciò che essi vogliono dire, invece come padrona della libertà d’udire esercita una inesorabile violenza contro i principi stessi.
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Di Bernd A. Laska( … ). Descrivere la figura stirneriana del “Proprietario” solleva tuttavia alcuni problemi particolari perché l’opera L’Unico e la sua proprietà di Stirner, che somiglia piuttosto ad uno scritto di circostanza, non è esente da imprecisioni terminologiche. (73+) Bisogna aggiungere a ciò che Stirner si guardò del tutto deliberatamente dal dare al Proprietario dei tratti ben precisi. È per questo che abbiamo a che fare qui, a dir il vero, con una forma senza forma. (74+) Dobbiamo dunque cominciare con il mostrare che è pertinente, malgrado tutto, parlare della “forma del Proprietario”.
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We are reproached often enough that our most ambitious fantasies really go no further than to a restoration of the French Revolution: Here, among the anarchists of 1793, we sought our ideals and the Jacobins are our heroes. Indeed those who say so are mistaken: Our business then would be indeed nothing but a reaction; and a reaction has never in history brought any good with it. Are we, then, held to be blind? Are we believed to be unable to see the consequences of the Revolution? The consequence of the Revolution was the empire of Napoleon and [the Bourbon restoration with] the installation of Louis XVIII. An alert historian will perceive that even a new, purely political revolution will only arrive at the restoration of legitimacy.
Max Stirner
translated by Lawrence Stepelevich
Now, as soon as man suspects that he has another side of himself [Jenseits] within himself, and that he is not enough in his mere natural state, then he is driven on to divide himself into that which he actually is, and that which he should become. Just as the youth is the future of the boy, and the mature man the future of the innocent child, so that othersider [Jenseitiger] is the future man who must be expected on the other side of this present reality.
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Max Stirner
Now, as soon as man suspects that he has another side of himself (Jenseits) within himself, and that he is not enough in his mere natural state, then he is driven on to divide himself into that which he actually is, and that which he should become. Just as the youth is the future of the boy, and the mature man the future of the innocent child, so that othersider (Jenseitiger) is the future man who must be expected on the other side of this present reality. Upon the awakening of that suspicion, man strives after and longs for the second other man of the future, and will not rest until he sees himself before the shape of this man from the other side. This shape fluctuates back and forth within him for a long time; he only feels it as a light in the innermost darkness of himself that would elevate itself, but as yet has no certain contour or fixed form. For a long time, along with other groping and dumb others in that darkness, the artistic genius seeks to express this presentiment. What no other succeeds in doing, he does, he presents the longing, the sought after form, and in finding its shape so creates the — Ideal. For what is then the perfect man, man’s proper character, from which all that is seen is but mere appearance if it be not the Ideal Man, the Human Ideal? The artist alone has finally discovered the right word, the right picture, the right expression of that being which all seek. He presents that presentiment — it is the Ideal. ‘Yes! that is it! that is the perfect shape, the appearance that we have longed for, the Good News — the Gospel. The one we sent forth so long ago with the question whose answer would satisfy the thirst of our spirit has returned!’ So hail the people that creation of genius, and then fall down — in adoration.
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Max Stirner (1842)
Debido a que nuestra época pugna por encontrar el término que defina su espíritu, muchos nombres son propuestos, todos con la pretensión de ser el adecuado. En todas partes actualmente nos encontramos con el variopinto y confuso tumulto de los partidos y las aves de rapiña del momento rondan alrededor de la herencia decadente del pasado. Esparcidos por todas partes en gran abundancia están los cadáveres políticos, sociales, eclesiásticos, científicos, artísticos, morales y demás, pero hasta que no se hayan consumido totalmente, el aire no estará limpio y la respiración de los seres vivos será opresiva.
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