Political liberty,” what are we to understand by that? Perhaps the individual’s independence of the State and its laws? No; on the contrary, the individual’s subjection in the State and to the State’s laws... Political liberty means that the polis, the State, is free; freedom of religion that religion is free, as freedom of conscience signifies that conscience is free; not, therefore, that I am free from the State, from religion, from conscience, or that I am rid of them. It does not mean my liberty, but the liberty of a power that rules and subjugates me; it means that one of my despots, like State, religion, conscience, is free. State, religion, conscience, these despots, make me a slave, and their liberty is my slavery.

15 pp. As you are each instant you are your own creature in this very 'creature' you do not wish to lose yourself the creator. My intercourse with the world consists in my enjoying it and so consuming it for my self-enjoyment" (Ego 319)
— Lawrence Stepelevich 'Max Stirner as Hegelian'

However Widukind De Ridder has argued that scholars who take Stirner's.

[citation needed] Stirner's main work is The Ego and Its Own also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German which translates literally as The Only One and his Property). Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25 1806 – June 26 1856) better known as Max Stirner was a German philosopher. This work was first publiMax Stirnerd in 1845 in Leipzig and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.