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it actually came from china, oral/written history shows by someone named Bodidharma, how it was used is pretty irrelevant to the discussion.

It's pretty clear, wayne price, that you are just projecting your own ideas and interpretations on to stirner. Stirner's philosophy was not a linear/progressive self help book, it was an explanation of how people have become enslaved to abstractions and ideas, the unique and its property is a full summary about how he used philosophy to:

-learn more about himself

-learn about capitalism and the state

-learn about repression, altruism, and sacrifice

never does stirner tell its eaders they need to go through this process entirely by themselves, but thats HOW STIRNER did it, and he recognized that society is so full of spooks and tricks that your average person will have to go through a similarly alienated process.

You should read "the unique and its proprty" and "stirners critics" cover to cover and carefully, then you will be knowledgable enough to comment, dont rely on marxist interpretations.