Ragnar Redbeard

Or the Survival of the Fittest

Might Is Right

Arthur Desmond

"For nearly two hundred pages phrase after phrase descends like a club, bent upon smashing to flinders the church and state at which it is aimed." -Liberty, October 1933 Might is Right is a frank and brutal look at the world we live in. There is no comfort to be found within its pages, but there is truth. Instead of faith and idealism, Might is Right offers only one solution to the troubles that plague human society: MIGHT is the power of the individual, and that is the only foundation of RIGHT! Originally published in 1896, Might is Right inspired a wide array of social and political movements. From radical socialists to Satanists, egoists to anarchists, and every flavor of freethinker in-between, Might is Right has left an indelible mark on the very society it condemns. Banned by booksellers and condemned by censors, Might is Right is one of the most infamous and dangerous books ever written. Tiffany Thayer, the founder of the Fortean Society, referred to Ragnar Redbeard as, "The Nietzsche of Chicago, the Max Stirner of Evanston." Whether Arthur Desmond-the man behind the mask-lived up to those comparisons is a matter of debate, as his life's story is still revealing itself more than a century later. What we can say for certain, is that the brutal nature of Ragnar Redbeard's magnum opus will inspire and disgust anyone who dares read it. Featuring a brief introduction by Kevin I. Slaughter, this Underworld Amusements paperback is a full facsimile of the 1927 edition of Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard, originally published by Dil Pickle Press of Chicago. It was the last edition of the book published during the author's lifetime, and its printing was overseen by the man himself. At long last we can once again read Might is Right exactly as Ragnar Redbeard intended it to be read, in all its pure, unadulterated fury.

1927 Facsimile Edition

FULL unedited version. A no-holds-barred philosophical venture into the meaning of the Jewish origins of Christianity, of nature over nurture, might over morals, of power over weakness, the right of the strongest to rule, the survival of the fittest and the belief that the world is governed by force, not by religious or moral creeds.

"Might is Right or Survival of the Fittest" was a little known work published in 1896 until it was brought to the attention of the public by the Gilroy Shooter, Santino William Legan, who was shot dead by police after he posted online about the 1896 racist manifesto, "Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest". The Gilroy gunman killed three people including a six year old boy and thirteen year old girl in Gilroy California on July 28, 2019 and wounded a dozen more at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California. He was an angry 19-year-old who had recently waded into the world of white supremacy. "Read Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard," Legan posted on his Instagram page. He then used a slurs against mixed-race people and misogynistic descriptions of white Silicon Valley workers, complaining about "hordes" of them "overcrowding" towns. Redbeard, which was a pseudonym, argued that only strength and violence determined what is morally right. The work, which is filled with misogynistic and anti-Semitic rhetoric, is a staple among neo-Nazis and white supremacists on extremist sites. The phrase "might is right" is often posted as a sort of motto or catchphrase indicating white supremacy on neo-Nazi extremist forums.

Might is Right Or The Survival of the Fittest by Ragnar Redbeard

MIGHT IS RIGHT is an incendiary anti-Christian tract based on a philosophy of pure egoism. The author advocates a winner-take-all approach to life, money, and women. Originally written in 1896, and revised in 1927, MIGHT IS RIGHT pulls no punches in advocating for a world of tooth-and-claw, of eye-for-eye and of tooth-for-tooth.

Survival of the Fittest

Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard

Peter H Gilmore

The Authoritative Edition of Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. The variant text of the five editions published in the author's lifetime harmonized into one. Thousands of previously undocumented citations and a never-before-published index. Featuring a new introduction by Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan.

The Authoritative Edition

Might is Right

Or, Survival of the Fittest

Robert Carmonius

RAGNAR REDBEARD'S UNMASKED POEMS: Batteries of pristine scorn and revolutionary songs Ragnar Redbeard's words are sung in works by Anton Szandor LaVey, Bernie Babcock, and Covington Hall. Labor papers and workers all around the world have reprinted and shouted out his proclamations with great enthusiasm. But what inspired Redbeard. We have sourced some of what inspired him in this collection of selected poems, verse, and songs. From newspapers, journals and bookselling advertisements like "The New Order," "The Tribune," "Sayings of Redbeard," and "The Lion's Paw." Mostly poems written as Arthur Desmond, Ragnar Redbeard.

Ragnar Redbeard's Unmasked Poems: Batteries of Pristine Scorn and Revolutionary Songs

Dragan Nikolic

This is unabridged, original text of this infamous book. Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest, is a book by pseudonymous author Ragnar Redbeard. First published in 1890, it heavily advocates social Darwinism, amoralism, and psychological hedonism. In Might is Right, Redbeard rejects conventional ideas of human and natural rights and argues that only strength or physical might can establish moral right (la Callicles). Libertarian historian James J. Martin called it "surely one of the most incendiary works ever to be published anywhere." Leo Tolstoy discussed the philosophy of Might Is Right in his 1897 essay What Is Art?: "The substance of this book, as it is expressed in the editor's preface, is that to measure "right" by the false philosophy of the Hebrew prophets and "weepful" Messiahs is madness. Right is not the offspring of doctrine, but of power. All laws, commandments, or doctrines as to not doing to another what you do not wish done to you, have no inherent authority whatever, but receive it only from the club, the gallows, and the sword. A man truly free is under no obligation to obey any injunction, human or divine. Obedience is the sign of the degenerate. Disobedience is the stamp of the hero. Men should not be bound by moral rules invented by their foes. The whole world is a slippery battlefield. Ideal justice demands that the vanquished should be exploited, emasculated, and scorned. The free and brave may seize the world. And, therefore, there should be eternal war for life, for land, for love, for women, for power, and for gold. The earth and its treasures is "booty for the bold." The author has evidently by himself, independently of Nietzsche, come to the same conclusions which are professed by the new artists."

Might Is Right Or Survival of the Fittest

This small booklet lays bare the dog eat dog philosophy behind Social Darwinism, making a special point of the way men have both figuratively and literally consumed each other, down through the ages. It is chock full of grim facts about the history of anthropophagy--man eating man! A rare glimpse of an astounding philosophy, this book has been excerpted from the original book "Might is Right", (1890) and has been condensed and edited for content.

Man--The Carnivore!

Desmond Dilg

Is it possible that the famous duel between Hamilton and Burr was part of a judgment against the two by a secret society they formed decades prior to create an American shadow government? This story, telling of the lives of two great rivals, lies somewhere between a Robert E. Howard pastiche and a Yankee version of Thomas Dixon Jr. Rival Caesars is a fantasy Revolutionary War tale by the man who penned the infamous philippic titled Might is Right. Arthur Desmond, who wrote as Ragnar Redbeard, here uses the nom de guerre Desmond Dilg. Might is Right ends thus: "P.S. Book II will be issued when circumstances demand it." The 1903 novel Rival Caesars is that book. Preceding his time as one of the earliest proponents of an American Nietzscheanism, Desmond was an Antipodean radical, fighting in the streets alongside anarcho-communists and trade unionists. He stood for election as a labor candidate and promoted Georgism to both Māori and Europeans in New Zealand and Australia. Fleeing the law, he settled in America among the Chicago bohemian scene, and his radicalism turned from collective rights to individualist might. While Might is Right was intended as an awakening call for "mighty men of valor," Rival Caesars is the plan of action, plotted out under the guise of a historical romance. This novel is nothing short of a rallying cry to an American Caesar to claim their share of pelf, prominence, and prestige in the vein of Napoleon or Cecil Rhodes. Incredibly rare for nearly a century, here, finally, is an accessible and beautifully designed paperback edition, with an authoritative introductory essay by Darrell W. Conder. While it will never be as infamous as its predecessor, Rival Caesars is the ultimate book by the man known as Ragnar Redbeard.

A Romance of Ambition, Love, and War

Rival Caesars

Wulf Sorenson

Ron McVan

Jamie Maccool

"Wulf Sorensen wrote the original "VOICE OF OUR FOREFATHERS" in the first half of the 20th century as a calling of the blood to all the of the Aryan tribes worldwide. In this newly expanded edition of that book, the reader will find an even deeper calling to times which are now far more perilous not only for Aryans and all of humanity but to our life-sustaining planet as well. "VOICE OF OUR FOREFATHERS" makes a diligent attempt to awaken the Aryan people to the extremely vital and urgent issues incumbent upon those who are rapidly losing their ancestral and ethnic roots to an alarming degree in the maddening gyre of the modern industrial, consumer driven high-tech age."

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