Not trying to be sectarian but the first thing on the wikipedia page was a picture of stirner.
I hate to say it but americans will drag up the wildest political ideologies from the depths of history. Also they stated they hate tankies in the same line as "authority figures", neoliberals, and internet mods.
The western left, ugh.
Forgot to mention they plaster their (german) (noble) house crest everywhere. (They also identify as an anarchist????)
I think that part of this is the desire to prove your intellectual superiority by referring to something nobody else has ever heard of. Maybe someday there will be a "real" left movement in the US and all these types will be absorbed into it.
Na these motherfuckers will turn around and sell me to the person trying to kill them in hopes that they won't be killed.
My interest in these sorts of things was a distrust and skepticism of liberals, a continued developing criticism and disdain of capitalism, and deflecting off of the anti-communist guardrails until I "got out of the car and climbed over" the guardrail using analysis