{"title":"Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"might-is-right-ragnar-redbeard","title":"Might is Right: The Authoritative Edition | Ragnar Redbeard | Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 6x9\", 406 pages.\u003cbr\u003eSecond Edition\u003cbr\u003e$19.95\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Nothing is true; nothing is sacred; all things are open to you; blessed be the Vanquishers.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003chr\u003eA truly authoritative edition of \u003ci\u003eMight is Right\u003c\/i\u003e by Ragnar Redbeard. The variant text of five original editions harmonized into one, with thousands of previously undocumented footnotes and citations. New introduction by Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan. Newly indexed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMight is Right\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of action and not belief. It is poetry, not a platform. Since the first edition in 1896, \u003ci\u003eMight is Right\u003c\/i\u003e has inspired those across a dynamic political and philosophical spectrum. The consistent core of the work is this: the individual is against everything but the self, and any means of proliferation of the self is the only good. Might is the power of the individual, and that is the \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c\/i\u003e foundation of Right.\u003cbr\u003e Published in 1896, \u003ci\u003eMight is Right\u003c\/i\u003e went through five editions during the lifetime of Ragnar Redbeard, who had just moved to America, escaping the law in Australia. Every one of these had a plethora of changes and reversions, many subtly coloring the meaning of the text, others leaving literal gaps on the printed page where words were physically removed from the printing plates. \u003cbr\u003e Now \u003ci\u003eMight is Right: The Authoritative Edition\u003c\/i\u003e not only reveals one authoritative text, but adds thousands of citations and notations to reveal a much greater story underneath the text. Every literary reference is cited, every name is given biographical sketch. Redbeard's voice is given echo in some of the contemporary and historical figures that his ideas of an amoral philosophical egoism are in accord with. \u003cbr\u003e Magus Peter H. 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Unlike so many utopian manifestos of the day, the bombastic yet lyrical text attributed to Ragnar Redbeard (a pseudonym) sought to upend \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e egalitarianism, \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e theism, and \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e political idealism. Such sacrosanct values were, by Redbeard’s stentorian decree, swept into the garbage bin—to be replaced with the singular \u003ci\u003emight\u003c\/i\u003e. To be sure, the author did not posit this to be a \u003ci\u003egood\u003c\/i\u003e way, or the \u003ci\u003ebest\u003c\/i\u003e way, but merely the only way things exist and prosper: struggle and strife as the eternal state of life, even when gowned in the pious sackcloth of the church or the saffron sheets of the temple. Since its original publication in 1896, the influence of \u003ci\u003eMight is Right\u003c\/i\u003e has been found in curious places, from syndicalist broadsides of the IWW to the canonical texts of the Church of Satan, but perhaps the most surprising historical example of literary “Redbeardiana” traces to the puritanical paraphrasis of a largely forgotten American writer named Julia “Bernie” Babcock. Following the death of her husband in 1897, the 29-year-old Babcock turned to writing as a means of earning income for her large family. She found some early success and her work was championed by one of the oldest (still active) political parties in the United States: the Prohibitionist Party. It was during her brief residence in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century that Babcock most likely came across Ragnar Redbeard’s inflammatory book, which had already caused a stir in the anarchist and unionist milieu of the time in the US and abroad. She used the book as many others have since her time: as uncredited primary source material for her own work. The result of her effort was \u003ci\u003eWith Claw and Fang: A Fact Story in a Chicago Setting\u003c\/i\u003e, a bizarre novel of prohibitionist agitprop that depicted anarchists conspiring with liquor barons to corrupt the hearts and minds of good Christian people. Babcock’s lurid tale was intended as nothing less than a full-on assault on what she believed to be the greatest enemy of civility: “Personal Liberty.” While it may be tempting for contemporary readers to mock Babcock’s moral rectitude and to dismiss her novel for its prudish melodrama and flat caricatures, the independent historian Trevor Blake (author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of A Failed Egoist\u003c\/i\u003e, Underworld Amusements, 2014) favors a more nuanced consideration of her life and work. In his introduction to this new edition of \u003ci\u003eWith Fang and Claw\u003c\/i\u003e, Blake reveals the author to be a sympathetic and even fascinating woman of her time. As an individual Miss Babcock proved to be a singular cultural force who, through a curious connection to HL Mencken, founded a local historical museum that today has a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars. She was a widowed mother of five children who deployed her skills as a polemicist rather than accept handouts. If Bernie Babcock is remembered for nothing else, we may yet marvel that her ironic appropriation of a firebrand scribe served to introduce one of history’s most blasphemous tomes to many good Christian soldiers. Indeed, she would have them read Redbeard’s introductory pronouncement: “I dip my finger in the watery blood of that Lamb of God, that impotent mob-redeemer, that bastard Jew, and write above his thorn-torn brow ‘King of eunuch virtues! Fraud! Liar! 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How everything that we know and believe has been shaped (by structure and intent) into a conformed, denatured shadow of what we could be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndividualists anarchists have always argued that anarchism should not be a version of heaven on earth but a \"plurality of possibilities\". This has relegated their activity to the actions that people make in their lives rather than participating in political bodies and formations that shape, and participate in, society. Egoists have gone to war with this world, robbed banks, practiced free love, and won everything except those things worth nothing: history, politics, \u0026amp; acceptance by society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople like you have been denounced as \"enemies of society\". No doubt you would indignantly deny being such and claim that you are trying to save society from the vampire of the State. You delude yourselves. 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Walter DeCasseres was the Sublime Boy. He walked in the few years of his life with the Crazy Beauty which hallucinated the souls of Shelley, Keats, Poe, Blake and Heine. He walked out of life with a gesture of sublime disdain that raised him to the shining summits of the Morning Star, where the souls of all child-gods go. The fury of a Titan foiled of his heaven, the frenzied paroxysms of a star-traveling eagle trying to gnaw its way out of its cage of flesh and bone, the rage of Ixion as he picks up the stone that he is doomed to roll forever and hurls it with imprecations against the ramparts of the gods: that was Walter DeCasseres, who, in his eighteenth year, went with the same passionate hurry and joy to the Everlasting Sleep as Youth hurries to the breasts of Venus. He was a boy who spurned his manhood before he had lived it. He abridged the agony of years; he curtailed his Drama to a curtain-raiser; he compressed life to a song and a curse. He came, he saw, he yawned. He was the mystery of precocious and elemental genius. There was a colossal mirror in his brain that reflected the hells of the Past and the grinning disillusions of the Future. On the exquisite keyboard of his nerves Satan and Medusa executed in thunder-tones the Ninth Symphony of Pain. His heart was the Mystical Rose stuck in a dung-heap.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Underworld Amusements","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31299423764549,"sku":"","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0040\/0461\/0117\/products\/SublimeBoy-Cover.jpg?v=1585490215"}],"url":"https:\/\/underworldamusements.com\/collections\/books\/pictorialism.oembed","provider":"Underworld Amusements","version":"1.0","type":"link"}