Anarcho-Nihilism: Difference between revisions

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[[File:ApolAn.png]] Apolitical Anarchism (inaccurately)<br>

[[File:RadApolAn.png]] Radical Anarcho-Apoliticism (inaccurately)<br>

Anti-Ideology Nihilism (inaccurately)<br>

Anti-ism (inaccurately)

Insurrection<br>

MoralismMorals<br>

Social structuresinstitutions<br>

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'''Nihilism''' as a political movement first appeared in Czaristczarist Russia in the middle of the 19th century and is known under the name of [[File:RussianNil.png]] [[w:Russian_nihilist_movement|Russian Nihilism]]. The leading Russian anarchist of the time [[File:Kropotkin.png]] Peter Kropotkin defined Nihilism as «the symbol of struggle against all forms of tyranny, hypocrisy, and artificiality and for individual freedom». Russian Nihilism was meant to bring down all traditional social structures without necessarily proposing an alternative. Many Russian Nihilists were sympathetic to [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|socialism]], however, their primary aim was a destructive revolt, first cultural then armed, which resulted in the assassination of the Russian czar [[File:Tsar.png]] [[w:Alexander_II_of_Russia|Alexander II]]. As the nihilist Bazarov, the character of the [[w:Fathers_and_Sons_(novel)|«Fathers and Sons»]] novel (1862), maintainedmaintains, Nihilists are here to destroy, and building will be a job of the different people.

[[File:Materialism.png]] ontological materialism, [[File:Philo-Determinism.png]] hard determinism and [[File:Scientocracy Small.png]] scientism (i. e. the cult of science). You could call them ordinary egoists as contrasted with philosophical.

Modern Anarcho-Nihilism is influenced by [[File:Anego.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism|Stirner's Egoism]] and Russian Nihilism. From Egoism it takes philosophical negation of social institutions and religionselfishness, from Russian Nihilism the inclination for active social disruption. Stirner opposed the notion of revolution which is seen as centralized and re-enslaving. Instead Stirner proposes an insurrection, that is, a spontaneous and decentralized revolt. In his book Stirner specifically notes that he means not a literal insurrection, but rather spitirual; however, his call for insurrection can be understood [[File:Insarch.png]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism|quite literally]] as exemplified by Anarcho-Nihilists.

Another major influence for Anarcho-Nihilism is [[File:Illeg.png]] [[Illegalism|Anarcho-Illegalism]], of which Anarcho-Nihilism is a variant. «Orthodox» Egoists, including Stirner himself, tend to be reasonably law-abiding and careful. However, Anarcho-Illegalists reject all restrictions altogether, both moral and legal, what results in them committing mercenary crimes. Anarcho-Nihilistsand are(potentially) very similar in this respect, however, illegalists are still Egoists who wish an establishment of the egoist society, while Nihilists are radical enough to put even Egoism under question, recognizing its [[File:Egosoc.png]] restrictive potentialinsurrections.

The only known organization relating itself to Anarcho-Nihilism is a Greek [[File:Terrorist.png]] terrorist organization [[w:Nihilist_Faction|Nihilist Faction]] (Φράξια Μηδενιστών). Their attacks include three they [https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1355371/ carried out] on their own in 1996 (bombing in the IBM offices, the shopping center and the apartment of the Supreme Court deputy prosecutor) and several arsons of the Greek diplomats' cars they [https://www.capital.gr/epikairotita/2055512/empristiki-epithesi-ellinon-tromokraton/ committed] from 2012 to 2014 as a member of the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei network. However, their devotion to the «inalienable rights to life and liberty» evident from their [https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1355371/ proclamation] suggests that they just took some inspiration from Russian nihilist movement rather than bebeing Anarcho-Nihilists in the full sense.

Although Anarcho-Nihilism remains a relatively minor tendency within Anarchism with the lack of any associations adhering to it. However, the [[File:Chaosnihil.png]] [[w:Symbol_of_Chaos|Chaos Star]] appropriated by Anarcho-Nihilists as a symbol keeps appearing here and there, so the tendency seems to be sustainable.