Post-Leftism

Post-Leftism, Post-Left Anarchism, or Post-Left Anarchy, is an anarchist ideology that critiques the mainstream left from a more radical viewpoint, advocating for a range of ideas such as Insurrectionism, Anarcho-Individualism, Anarcho-Egoism, Accelerationism, Anti-Civilization, Post-Civilization, Political Nihilism, Eco-Nihilism, Anti-Work, Post-Feminism, Cyber-Nihilism, Post-Situationism, Post-Autonomism, Anarcho-Communization Post-Modernism, Post-Structuralism, Schizoanalysis, Self Theory as opposed to ideology, and others.

Post Left Anarchy accepts many classical left-anarchist beliefs, like opposition towards all forms of government ( Monarchy, Fascism, Marxism-Leninism, Liberal Democracy), hierarchical economics ( Capitalism, Slavery, Imperialism, Feudalism, State Socialism), organized religion ( Roman Catholicism, fundamentalist Islam) and discrimination ( homophobia, patriarchy, racism), with some post leftists even rejecting classical anarchist forms of organization such as direct democracy as a means for anarchy, seeing it as another form of leviathan and oppression, and involuntary work.

In short, the term Post-Left Anarchism designates a form of anarchism that seeks to move away from traditional leftism though particular critiques of the orthodox-left, and the proposed solutions vary radically between eachother.

Beliefs

Because post-leftism is an incredibly varied ideology between practitioners, and share numerous schools of thought, ideas can vary wildly between different post-left ideologies and individual anarchists and can often conflict with eachother, because of this it is really hard to have a concrete definition of post-leftism in regards to it's means, however numerous post-left thinkers and advocates have discussed their own ideas in detail which have had significant influence on numerous other post-left ideologies and even the general movement as a whole.

Rejection of the Traditional Left

In an essay Anarchy After Leftism, Bob Black said, that anarchism minus marxism would be better. Some post leftists criticize many parts about the left, for example:

• Democracy - Bob Black sees democracy, including direct one as another system of control, without difference with state systems, because the majority decides about an individual.
• Proletariat - many of them see traditional concepts about class struggle as reductive, essentialist or more complex than just the bourgeoisie vs proletariat. Especially they reject the dictatorship of the proletariat, seeing that is another oppressive and unworkable system leading only to tyranny, and thus reproduction of capitalism. Communization theory teaches that the concept of proletariat is defined as self oppression of the working people, and thus should be rejected.

The left and the right are seen as inseparable form of polarity, where each other stabilizes the system instead of abolishing it. Examples include the bolshevik revolution in Russia, which reinforced hierarchical, authoritarian state system in name of "communism", instead ending tyranny altogether, as well as modern social democratic movements trying to reform capitalism by giving it "human face" rather than complete destruction of exploitative economy.

Anti-Organization

As its said before, post leftists don't have an unified types of praxis, instead of it they advocate for unorganized action. Influenced by Max Stirner, post leftist preferable social organization would be unions of egoists, a horizontal and temporary type of affinity groups. Influenced by situationists, they advocate for revolution of everyday life and fighting the alienating spectacle of capitalism in everyday. They also support insurrections, being unorganized and small acts of rebellion against authority. Hakim Bey, one of post leftist theorists invented Temporary Autonomous Zones, being temporarily existing planes of insurrection, without organization, and free from the state's power and capital for some time. Theorists of Communization advocate for mass insurrection not being a political program, but a living movement to abolish the current state of things. Some of them also say that anarchy isn't a system or a way how people should organize, but a free lifestyle.

Post leftists reject the mass revolution as an idea, because it requires end goal oriented politics, and that it may evolve into totalitarian rule. They reject labor unions, because they according to post left anarchists are mere tools of capital, unable to bring a change. Finally, they reject electoral politics and democratic reform.

Criticism of Ideology

Post left anarchists see every ideology, not only traditional ones like liberalism, conservatism, socialism and fascism, but even anarchism, as rigid, dogmatic doctrine that one must embrace or reject. Instead, they propose intellectual freedom of expression and multiple forms of creative resistance against power structures. Influenced by Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche and postmodern philosophy, ideology is seen as mere phantasm limiting individual capacity to become what they want to be, or social construct imposed by masses or authorities without actual existence, being fully constructed and limiting potential of creativity.

History

Post-Left Anarchy is influenced mostly by Max Stirner and Situationist International. WIP

Variants

Anti-Workism

r/antiwork is a subreddit dedicated to the abolition of wage labor and the workplace conditions under capitalism. It seeks socialism as the best alternative to bourgeois exploitation, although it hosts a variety of different left-wing ideologies (although almost all of its members are anti-authoritarian). Many attack it for its Utopian premises, laziness and generally irritable nature as seen when one of their moderators got onto Fox News and embarrassed the entire movement for decades to come.

Personality and Behaviour

• Doesn't want to work, instead of this, they prefers enjoying life.
• Doesn't like being called a leftist.
• Quotes obscure philosophers all the time.
• Overuses marijuana.
• Hangs out with Anarcho-Egoism.

How to Draw

Flag of Post-Leftism

1. Draw a ball.
2. Fill it with red,
3. Draw a black curvy line going from the lower left to the upper right, staying above the diagonal and having some seaweed-like protrusions going upward.
4. Fill with black the region below the line.
5. Add the Stirner glasses, and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#FF0000	rgb(255, 0, 0)
	Black	#141414	rgb(20, 20, 20)

Relationships

Friends

• Anarchism - Dear aunt, you gave us excellent ideas, but many of them are outdated in 21st century. Reject revolution, embrace lifestyle!
• Insurrectionary Anarchism - Some of you are incredibly based, but you still fall into the necessity of doing something against something. I prefer to live outside the system rather than firing guns towards cops and then be imprisoned for life.
• Post-Anarchism - Smoke five joints, take LSD and inject heroine, then write another amazing theory about postmodern psychoanalytic postmarxist postfeminist anarcho-egoism, I would definitely read it!
• Anarcho-Egoism - Stirner was an incredibly based guy. I am him but today.
• Ego-Communism - A cool commie that doesn't induce his industrial labor worship, whatever he means through his "living communism", we kinda get along.
• Illegalism - Steal things, fck work. Just maybe don't try to rob your fellows and focus on greedy ceos and annoying bureaucrats?
• Post-Colonial Anarchism - The colonized people's situation is different than ours, but until you fall into that "white man bad" narrative we can smoke pipes and take peyote and walk through the jungle together. I must agree that indigenous people have the spirit that most of whites don't get.
• Anarcho-Individualism - As your European variants reminds a lot of myself, American guys were kinda too much focused on that natural law, social contract and other enlightenment bs.
• Post-Feminism - Cool girl who doesn't give a fck about all of this idpol bs, while we are both smashing patriarchy and imaginary gender roles.
• Anarcho-Nihilism - Duude, you are cool but stop whining and take some action to your life. Try to experience it instead of closing yourself in a basement, right?
• Deleuzoguattarianism -
• Queer Nihilism - Nice to see some who's gay but doesn't give a fck about these idpol twitter idiots?
• Soulism - Really cool, reminds me a lot of myself who transcend themselves above the traditional understanding of the ideology and doctrine. We take drugs and wander through the astral together, that's really fun. I'm still extremely skeptical of that tech stuff.

Frenemies

• Situationism - Very interesting thoughts and a good analysis on The Spectacle, avant-garde art is also based, and many of you oppose work, but why idolize some german old fart?
• Existentialist Anarchism - I don't care at all, let's decide the meaning of life individually. But many of your philosophers suck, like Sartre was an useful idiot of Stalin.
• Autonomism - The most tolerable form of Marxism, I like your opposition to organization and dogmas, as well as inclusion of other classes than proletariat into your action.
• Accelerationism - You have many unconventional ideas, but most of you fetishize capitalism and technology and commit some weird, overcomplicated metaphysics instead of saying what you actually mean. Leave that science fiction dystopias about robots and cyberpunk, dude. In general I hate psychiatry, but I recommend it to you, as you sound like autism and schizophrenia combined.
• Deep Ecology - I am kinda associated with this type of ecology rather than eco-modernist crap, but isn't your idealization of nature overly religious? Like you know, forests are cool but we don't live in the garden of Eden.
• Anarcho-Primitivism - Build your cabin in the woods, hunt and gather, that's cool idea. But your wondering about global return to primitive, you keep it in your dreams only, because not even nukes would turn the earth into your stone age utopia.
• Queer Anarchism - I tolerate your more individualistic variants, but other than that most of you get way too caught up in identity politics for my liking. And your younger social media-obsessed followers are the very definition of cringe; I don't care if you "cancel" me for pointing that out, it's just true.
• Neoluddism - I am afraid that your ideal society will not differ from Amish communes, really bro, I don't want to work on some corn fields, then pray to Jewish carpenter on a cross and die by aids.
• Anarcho-Communism - You're cool and all in theory, and are certainly on the right track, but I think that some of you are led by such dogma to the point of being against any true form of individualism or self-determination and just fall into the same pitfalls and authoritarian tendencies of most other leftists.
• Anarcho-Transhumanism - There is a lot of inner conflict between me on transhumanism in regards to me, and my bros are split between extreme adoration or extreme abhorrence of you and I'm personally conflicted myself in regards to how I see this tech thing. Like without Elon Musk and other greedy oligarchs you may not achieve this techno-utopian thing, and solarpunk is kinda dumb aswell.
• Eco-Anarchism - I support your more deep ecological variants, but you're often too Bookchinite.
• Anarcha-Feminism - Why do you believe in 'rights'? Don't get me wrong, I hate misogynistic assholes as much as you do, but 'rights' are just another way of subjection of women rather than any kind of liberation, my girl.
• Anarcho-Collectivism - I know the collectivism in your name isn't totally literal, but any kind of constant and organized society will never give you freedom. Though standing against the Marxists in the first Internationale for their authoritarianism was based.
• Agrarian Anarchism - I respect rejecting big cities, to instead embrace small communities, but a tiny peasant society itself is only a kind of primitive Leviathan.
• Anarcho-Frontierism - Maybe living on the frontier will give more freedom? And your point on technology is interesting, even if space will not be dominated by corporations, I worry that you will eventually evolve into the new "Manifest Destiny".
• Communization Theory - You are far better than majority of leftists, but you still fall into their mistakes. Living communism? What about no communism at all? Bro, please throw this hammer and sickle to the dumpster finally, and buy a couple of molotovs and kilogram of shrooms.
• Nietzscheanism - You have a very good philosophy which I can exploit and ramble about, but you hate my narcissism and laziness and edgelordism and whatnot so you won't be my friend.

Enemies

• Capitalism - Supporters of capitalism are so brainwashed by actual capitalists, that they believe they have freedom of choice.
• Fascism - Nothing in the state, everything outside the state, everything against the state.
• Marxism–Leninism - When you make capitalism even more controlling by central planning, and you think that you liberated everyone.
• Libertarianism - You're just a conservative who does drugs.
• Anarcho-Capitalism - You can't call private mercenaries when I trespass on your property, because you are a nerdy kid who has no life outside the internet. We actually have some praxis except shitposting online about your economists that you seem to worship.
• Imperialism - Yes I prefer a primitive nomadic tribe over your Leviathan.
• Industrialism - The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race, and all races of animals.
• Corporatocracy - You embody everything I hate. Centralization, capitalism, consumerism, work, pollution, and idpol-based cultural policy.
• Corporatism - You're even worse than the cronyist from above.
• Anti-Fascism - You are why I exist. You radlibs keep attacking everyone, even innocent bystanders, who disagree with you just because they don't buy your shitty pseudo-progressive identity politics and micro-statist worldviews. And to be honest much of the problems of the modern left can be boiled down to you.
• Revolutionary Progressivism - Literally the same reasons why I hate the guy above, if not worse, because is a terrorist and physically violent against anything that isn't him. Though the Yippies were pretty cool guys.
• Bookchin Communalism - I used to like you a lot and thought you were just making some traditional anarchist mistakes, but you're not even an anarchist, and your critique of "lifestylism" is laughable. I support the anarchy of lifestyle and the only thing you can do with it is sucking my dick.
• Ochlocracy - Don't care, didn't ask. Plus you're just a dictatorship by the mass, so gtfo.
• Petersonism - Yeah, I like postmodernism, you got a problem with that?
• Enlightenment Thought and Humanism - All you have done is create a new Leviathan with greater control over the individual. Social contract is a worthless bullshit, there is no essence of human being and inherently good human nature, reason is a tool for explaining stuff, not an object of cult and humanism only empowers discrimination but not racial or sexual, but based on species.
• State Atheism - The only difference between you and them is that your worship of Leviathan is more direct and pure.
• National Anarchism - Your masked white-nationalist "pan-separatist" policies wouldn't fool even the most idiotic of ancoms, for once I agree with him, you are just a bunch of reactionaries trying to find an excuse to build your little "whites only" segregated communities.
• Anarcho-Fascism - You are somehow even dumber than the guy above you, and almost as psychotic as Avaritionism
• Marxism - Your vision of communism and freedom is outdated and simplistic. When will you realize we lumpenproletariats are just as exploited by capitalism as your followers are? AND STOP CALLING ME A LAZY PSEUDO-BOURGEOIS!
• Blanquism - At least you are honest in your disgust for us lumpenproletariats, unlike the above's backhanded pity. I still hate you just as much as him.
• Mediacracy - Goddamit Reddit, you just had to screw up in that interview, didn't you? This is why tyrannical and power-hungry jannies who do it for free can't be trusted to be a part of the revolution insurrection.
• Conservative Socialism - While you may be a collectivist conservative socialist, we still share a mutual hatred towards identity politics and radlibs. Of course, for completely different reasons so I am not willing to compromise with you. You are just like any regular so-called "progressive" or "revolutionary" but simply honest about their deep-seated anachronistic worldviews that are out of touch with reality.
• Fully Automated Gay Space Communism - Please take a break from the internet.
• Third Way, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy and Social Liberalism - Your presence is a good illustration of how the traditional left can help capitalism stabilize its rule.
• Dengism - Same as above, but somewhat more brutal and doesn't hide their brutality.
• Anarcho-Totalitarianism - Aren't you just platformist/ansynd/bookchinite again?
• Globalism - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
• Barracks Communism & Benefactorism - This is what the left wants!
• State Liberalism - Nice try, Schwab. We shall eat naturally grown plants and what we can get by ourselves, not your ze bugs. We shall live a free nomadic lifestyle or settle down in some village, grow our own plants and raise animals, not live in your ze pod.
• Fordism and Kraterocracy - End stage of civilisation.
• Catholic Theocracy - Power, money, blood and rape hungry assholes who justify everything they do by some ancient stupid book.
• Libertarian Socialism - Just a palliative that doesn't really change anything, for example you still want to keep many parts of capitalism like the state and work, and decentralized planning is another unworkable leftist crap.
• Avaritionism - The only people I really want to be killed are greedy, sadistic and soulless psychos like you.

Further Information

For overlapping political theory see:

Anarcho-Egoism, Ego-Communism, Neoluddism, Post-Anarchism, Anarcho-Individualism, Illegalism, Insurrectionary Anarchism, Situationism, Autonomism, Post-Colonial Anarchism, Anarcho-Nihilism, Anarcho-Primitivism, Anarcho-Transhumanism, Nomadology, Communization Theory

Literature

General

• Post-Left Reading List
• Insurgency
• Left Unity: The Politics of a Soldier’s Grave by Dr.Bones
• Post-Left Anarchy : Leaving the Left Behind by Jason McQuinn
• Anarchy After Leftism by Bob Black
• Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs by Curious George Brigade
• Willful Disobedience by Wolfi Landstreicher
• Your Politics are Boring as Fuck
• Anti Left Anarchy - Hunting Leftism With Intent to Kill
• Fuck Your Red Revolution
• The Incredible Lameness of Left Anarchism by Jason McQuinn
• The Left? No Thanks by John Zerzan
• Morality vs Ethics
• No Wing Anarchy
• Technophilia - An Infantile Disorder by Bob Black

Anti-Work and Anti-Economy

• The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
• Let’s Destroy Work, Let’s Destroy the Economy by Alfredo M. Bonanno
• Anti Work and The Struggle for Control by John Zerzan

Green Anarchy

• Desert by Anonymous
• Future Primitive by John Zerzan

Insurrectionary

• Armed Joy by Alfredo M. Bonanno
• After Marx, Autonomy by Alfredo Bonanno
• Affinity by Alfredo Bonanno
• Against Legalization by Hakim Bey
• TAZ The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey

Anarcho-Nihilism

• Nihilism, Anarchy and the 21st Century by Aragorn!
• Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski
• A Dagger of Feral Anarchy by Flower Bomb
• Decomposing the Masses - Towards Armed Individuality by Flower Bomb
• Descending into Madness by Flower Bomb
• On Self Love and Gun Powder by Flower Bomb

Post-Civ and Anti-Civ

• Post-Civ!: A Brief Philosophical and Political Introduction to the Concept of Post-civilization
  • Post-Civ!: A Deeper Exploration
• Against His-story, Against Leviathan by Freddy Perlman

Self-Theory

• Critical Self Theory & the non-ideological critique of ideology by Jason McQuinn

Post-Situationist

• It's Crazy How Many Things Don't Exist by Jean-Pierre Voyer

Ego-Communism and Anarchist Communization

• A Brief Description of Egoist Communism by DZ Rowan
• Bloom Theory by Tiqqun
• The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee

Post-Feminism

• Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks
• Undoing Gender by Judith Butler

Queer Nihilism

• No Future by Lee Edelman
• baedan — journal of queer nihilism — issue one by baedan
• Against the Gendered Nightmare by baedan

Wikipedia

• Post-Left Anarchy
• Bob Black
• Pigasus the Immortal

Parties & Organizations

• Bergpartei, die "ÜberPartei"
• Youth International Party

Videos

• Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind - Jason McQuinn Read by Desert Outpost.
• Desert by Anonymous Read by Audible Anarchist.

Channels

• Desert Outpost

Online Communities.

• r/postleftanarchism
• r/antiwork (formerly)
• r/AmerExit

Gallery

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