Why face inner demons when one can vote for the personification of them?

When the body is destroyed, the phantom body remains. It's legacy. This is Max Stirner’s rebuff to Marx. Ideologies outlast their functions, identities survive their origins. Even economic systems carry on like zombies after they collapse. We drag them around like rotting corpses. In attacking this particular establishment, that specific state or master, one unwittingly sets up another form of domination in the reason. And this is not by chance. For Stirner, ‘the craving for a particular freedom always includes the purpose of a new domination.’ This is why he favoured social insurrection over political revolution. Consciousnesses raising over violent rebellion. The former breaks with the form of rule, the latter only the content. 

Yesterday’s belligerent slave is today’s wilful master.

The “progressive” transitions from Christianity to Humanism, from Monarchy to Law, from slavery to work are all just a “change of masters”, from one kind of rule to the next. The form outlast the content, and so it too must be emptied”.