max stirner the ego and his own

Fifty years sooner or later can make little difference in the; case of a book so revolutionary as this. It
saw the light when a so-called revolutionary movement was preparing in men’s minds which agitation
was, however, only a disturbance due to desires to participate in government, and to govern and to be
governed, in a manner different to that which prevails. The “revolutionists” of 1848 were bewitched
with an idea. They were not at all the masters of ideas. Most of those who since that time have prided
themselves upon being revolutionists have been and are likewise but the bondmen of an idea, — that
of the different lodgment of authority.