Stirner, that living paradox, was the revolutionary against all revolutions because he preached that replacing the old authoritarian cause or abstraction, that subjugated the people, with a new system, a replacement abstraction to worship, with its accompanying, stifling laws, morality and cultural statements, was in fact only a coup d'etat, not a revolution. He was entirely correct about this.
Rather he suggested that the egoist, that creative nothing, should oppose the authoritarian government, church or work place through his personal insurrection, marshaling his personal power, might, force, will and thinking to serve himself, no external or higher cause.
I would agree that insurrection not revolution is the only way to effect lasting reform. But, the individuating, objective egoist in insurrection against all causes, while serving the cause that he does serve moderately, can have his cake and eat it to: living in a world where meaning, God, reason and values are objectively true, without the cause served consuming its followers and converting them into possessed, alienated myrmidons.
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