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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. There is no irony in the fact that H.L. Mencken is a tall figure in the history of letters, and Robert Rives La Monte is wholly forgotten. La Monte, who worked at the Baltimore News as well as being an editor for the International Socialist Review, was a true believer in the promise of Socialism. Here he writes six letters trying to convince H.L. Mencken to reject his selfish ways and become a comrade in the revolution, to usher in a perfect world of total equality and universal brotherhood. Mencken, long time writer for the Baltimore Sun, editor of The American Mercury, and prolific author and essayist, was the absolute worst choice of target for an evangelist of the common man. There have been few who were as openly resolved to a robust Nietzschean individualism. And so, in one of the turn of the last centuries greatest flame wars, we have the Bard of Baltimore's six responses to those appeals. The battle of the collective good versus individual liberty still rages in pitched battles. La Monte's voice is rightfully now just one of many faceless advocates of class-warfare, and Mencken's personality survives as the greatest advocate of social Darwinism and thus ultimately Mencken's own views. (It) shows how (Mencken's) political thinking had solidified-hardened, really. The law of the survival of the fittest, he declares, is immutable, thus making socialism an absurdity; human progress is the product of the will to power, and all social arrangements failing to take this fact into account are doomed to failure; inequality is natural, even desirable, both in and of itself and as an alternative to mob rule; the world exists to be run by the first-caste man. -Terry Teachout, The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken The argument of Men versus the Man is one we are still having today. The content of the argument is the relative desirability of two approaches to our social life. On the one hand is proposed a society of men: a society in which none is allowed to rise too high above another, a society that subtracts great resources from the more able in an effort to raise up the less able. On the other hand is a society of the man: a society in which individuals are left to do what they can with their inherited capabilities, in conditions of maximum personal freedom and minimal state control. -John Derbyshire, from the preface. Latta, Josh (illustrator).…

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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. There is only one Malfew Seklew and Sirfessor Wilkesbarre is His Prophet. The polemical writings by and about Sirfessor Wilkesbarre: a Chicago Radical, Social Aristocrat and Egoist Superman of the early 20th Century. Companion of Ragnar Redbeard, frequenter of the Dil Pickle Club, and a man too magnificent for one moniker. Fred Wilkes (1864 - 1930) traversed in the mind through Socialism into a Sardonic Nietzschean Egoism as he made his way in the flesh from England to Chicago and New York. Founder of the Society of Social Aristocrats, selling Salvation to All and One through pamphlets, radio presentations and soap-box lectures on Love, Laughter, Wit and Wisdom. With an introduction by Trevor Blake, author of Confessions of a Failed Egoist, gathering never before published biographical details of Wilkesbarre and the radical milieu he circulated in. Fortified by fancies from his time as Associate Editor of the egoist journal The Eagle and The Serpent, pamphlets co-written with the infamous author of Might Is Right, and selections from Hobohemian Chicago newspaper The Day Book. In addition, the editors have produced over 250 elucidating footnotes and gathered a number of illustrations judiciously arranged throughout the book. As Seklew himself says: "Are you a Simpoleon or a Supercrat? A Peter-pantheist or a Personality? Are you a Bromide or a Sulphide? A nonentity or a reality? Are you an unripe ego or an unfinished organism with underdone understanding and hard boiled beliefs, pingpong principles and petrified prejudices? Do you amble through the atmosphere with the courage of a carrot, the consciousness of a cabbage, the turpitude of a turnip, the pep of a prune, the punch of a parsnip and the psychology of a Sundowner in the swamps of Hobohemia, or do you dash through space with the courage of a Conqueror and the wisdom of a Will-to-Power Man? If not, massage your Mentoids, and be saved--from yourself at your worst.". Latta, Josh (illustrator).…

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Softcover. Zustand: As New. Las Escrituras Satanicas transmite el ingenio, sabiduria y perspectiva diabolica del Sumo Sacerdote de la Iglesia de Satan, el Mago Peter H. Gilmore. Estos ensayos, articulos y diatribas, se han recopilado entre los escritos que por mas de veinte anos ha hecho el Sumo Sacerdote para su conciliabulo infernal, algunos de ellos editados originalmente en las paginas de publicaciones disponibles solo para miembros. Desde la magia de los juguetes hasta las tecnicas para viajar en el tiempo, el Mago Gilmore conduce al lector por el Sendero Siniestro, en donde unos pocos encontraran lo que esperan. El Diablo siempre tiene las mejores melodias y ahora escucharas, de un Maestro satanico, como el Senor Oscuro ha influenciado compositores y musicos mucho antes del advenimiento de las guitarras electricas y los conciertos en estadios. El Mago Gilmore revela principios del ritual satanico, en una discusion franca en torno a ritos prohibidos. ?Que es un funeral satanico? ?Como se casan los satanistas? Descubrelo ahora, ya que estas ceremonias profanas nunca antes se habian divulgado por fuera de la jerarquia infernal de la Iglesia de Satan. He aqui la filosofia para aquellos lo bastante intrepidos para ser sus propios dioses --- o Demonios. Butler, Timothy Patrick (illustrator).…

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