Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest (1896)

Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard (generally believed to be a pen name of Arthur Desmond) This book is a reasoned negation of the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, the Sermon on the Mount, Republican Principles, Christian Principles–and “Principles” in general. It proclaims upon scientific evolutionary grounds, the unlimited absolutism of Might, and asserts that cut-and-dried moral codes are crude and immoral inventions, promotive of vice and vassalage.

In Might Is Right, Redbeard rejects conventional ideas such as advocacy of human and natural rights and argues in addition that only strength or physical might can establish moral right ( a la Callicles or Thrasymachus). The book also attacks Christianity and democracy. Friedrich Nietzsche’s theories of master–slave morality and herd mentality served as inspirations for Redbeard’s book which was written contemporaneously.

Surely one of the most incendiary works ever to be published anywhere, this book asserts that weakness should be regarded with hatred and the strong and forceful presence of Social Darwinism. Other parts of the book deal with the topics of race and male–female relations. The book claims that the woman and the family as a whole are the property of the man, and it proclaims that the White race is innately superior to all other races.

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