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Part One: Ragnar Redbeard: The Patron Saint of Toxic Masculinity

Behind the Bastards

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The Survival of the Fittest by Arthur Sterner

In the early 1890s, Arthur Desmond increasingly became an advocate for extreme violence. He started to write lovingly of man as the fighting, roving, pillaging, lusting, cannibalistic animal par excellence. So that's where this guy starts turning as his frustration against the failure of the labor movement to rise up like bills. In it, he wrote about man's desire to destroy as the thing that makes him the absolute monarch of the world.

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