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Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-
consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, and individualist
anarchism. Although Stirner was opposed to
communism for the same reasons he opposed capitalism, humanism, liberalism, property rights, and
nationalism, seeing them as forms of authority over the individual and as purveyors of ideologies he could not reconcile himself with, he has influenced many anarcho-
communists and post-left anarchists.
Stirner's philosophy was important in the development of modern anarchist
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anarchism and egoist
anarchism. Although Stirner is usually associated with individualist
anarchism, he was influential to many social anarchists such as anarcha-feminists
Emma Goldman and Federica Montseny. In European individualist
anarchism, he influenced its major proponents after him such as Émile Armand, Han Ryner, Renzo Novatore, John Henry Mackay, Miguel Giménez Igualada and Lev Chernyi.