Might is right
Might Is Right or The Survival of the Fittest is a book first published in 1890 under the pseudonym Ragnar Redbeard that advocates social Darwinian ideas.
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Redbeard rejects human and natural rights , claiming that only strength and physical power build morality.
review
The libertarian historian James J. Martin described it as "certainly one of the most incendiary works ever published". The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey , the founder of the Church of Satan , contains plagiarized passages from Might Is Right .
author
Some authors, such as the British anarchist S. E. Parker, suspect the author to be New Zealander Arthur Desmond , a prominent and radical advocate of the uniform tax conceived by Henry George .
Others suspect that Jack London is the author. Just like Desmond, the political difference is great, London's political activism began with membership in the Marxist Socialist Labor Party of America and ended with membership in the Socialist Party of America , and the bulk of London's students hold this claim that Redbeard is London , for wrong. Claims of this kind that Redbeard was London were often made by Satanists ; LaVey considered him "the most likely candidate".
expenditure
- Ragnar Redbeard: Might is right or the survival of the fittest . Wotansfolk, s. l. 1999 (reprint of the London 1910 edition).
- Ragnar Redbeard: Might Is Right. The philosophy of power . Edition Esoterick, Siegburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-936830-31-6 (with a foreword by Anton Szandor LaVey and an afterword by Peter H. Gilmore).
Web links
- Ragnar Redbeard: Might is Right Text of the Dil Pickle Press edition, Chicago 1927 (PDF 142 S./917 kB).