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|title=[[File:Annil.png]] '''Anarcho-Nihilism''' [[File:Annil3.png]] |
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|caption="There are no demands to be made, no utopic visions to be upheld, no political programs to be followed — the path of resistance is one of pure negation" |
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|caption = "Existence is meaningless and so is the state." |
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|aliases = AnNih <br> AnNil <br> Borderline Personality Disorderism (BPDism) <br> Doomer <br> Doomerism <br>[[File:RussianNil.png]] [[W:Russian nihilist movement|Russian Nihilism]]<br> [[File:NewEgo.png]] [[Egoism|New Egoism]] <br> [[File:Nihil.png]] Nihilism<br>[[File:DepressionMale.png]] Depressionism [[File:DepressionFem.png]] <br> Edgy Teenism (Pejoratively)<br>[[File:Jokerismball.png]] Jokerpilled |
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[[File:Anarcho-Nihilism.png]] Nihilistic Anarchism<br> |
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[[File:Chaosnihil.png]] Chaotic Anarchism [[File:ChaosStar.png]]<br> |
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[[File:NewEgo.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism|New Egoism]]<br> |
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[[File:EgoNihil.png]] {{PHB|Stirnerism|Ego-Nihilism}} [[File:EgoNihil2.png]]<br> |
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[[File:Anpostleft.png]] [[:Category:Post-Left|Post-Left]] |
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[[File:WikiAwaj.png]] Systemless Anarchism<br> |
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[[File:ApolAn.png|link=https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Anarcho-Apoliticism]] Apolitical Anarchism (erroneously)<br> |
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[[File:Nihil.png]] [[w:Nihilism|Nihilism]] <br> |
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[[File:RadApolAn.png]] Radical Anarcho-Apoliticism (erroneously)<br> |
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[[File:UltraAn.png]] Ultra-Anarchism (indeed, kinda radical even for anarchism)<br> |
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[[File:Chaos_pixels.png]] Anarchy without Anarchism (by some)<br> |
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[[File:DepressionMale.png]] Depressionism (erroneously or pejoratively)<br> |
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[[File:Chaotic_Evil.png]] Chaotic Evil (D&D) [[File:Chaotic_Evil2.png]] <br> |
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[[File:Autism.png]] Autism (accused)<br> |
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[[File:Violannil.png]] Sociopath (accused)<br> |
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Average Edgy OC (pejoratively)<br> |
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[[File:Narodniks.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism|Narodism]] <br> |
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Rick Sanchez Thought<br> |
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[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism]] (some) <br> |
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[[File:Psychoawaj.png]] Dystopian Anarchism (by them [[File:Sec.png|link=Authoritarianism]] [[File:Soc-h.png|link=Socialism]] [[File:Conservative.png|Conservatism]])<br> |
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[[File:Skepticism.png]] [[W:Philosophical skepticism|Skepticism]]<br> |
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[[File:AnarchPicard.png]] Strawman Anarchism (by non-nihilist anarchists)<br> |
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[[File:Jokerismball.png]] <s>LITERALLY JOKER</s><br> |
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[[File:Honkler.png]] <s>The Goker (by [[File:Honk.png]] OneyNG)</s><br> |
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[[File:Antideo.png|link=https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Anti-Ideology]] Anti-ism (erroneously) |
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[[File:Acidcomf.png]] [[Acid Communism]] <br> [[File:Mansphere.png]] [[Manosphere]] (Blackpillers) |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXyRAsBp998 Bloodhail] <br> |
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{{Info|Libertarian Unity|LibUnity}}<br> |
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{{Info|Anarchists}}<br> |
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{{Info|Egoists}}(some)<br> |
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[[File:Anprim.png|link=:Category:Primitivist]] [[:Category:Primitivists|{{Color|#018001|'''Primitivists'''}}]] (some)<br> |
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[[File:Anpostleft.png|link=:Category:Post-Left]] [[:Category:Post-Left|{{Color|#FF0000|'''Post-Leftists'''}}]] |
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[[File:Pessimism.png]] {{PHB|Pessimism}}<br> |
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[[File:Nietzsche.png]] {{PHB|Nietzscheanism}}<br> |
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[[File:Anego.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism]]<br> |
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[[File:Illeg.png]] [[Illegalism|Anarcho-Illegalism]]<br> |
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[[File:Anticiv.png]] [https://pcbwiki.net/wiki/Anti-Civilization Anti-Civilization]<br> |
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[[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]] (some)<br> |
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[[File:Econil.png]] Ecological pessimism |
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[[File:Insarch.png]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism]]<br> |
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[[File:Synthesisanarchy.png]] [[Synthesis Anarchism]]<br> |
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[[File:QueerNil.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Queer Nihilism]]<br> |
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[[File:NihilCom.png|link=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-nihilist-communism]] Nihilist Communism<br> |
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[[File:CybNil.png|link=https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Cyber-Nihilism]] Cyber Nihilism<br> |
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[[File:Chaosnihil.png]] '''Flower Bomb Nihilism''' {{Collapse| |
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*[[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]] |
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*[[File:Foucault.png]] Anti-Psychiatry |
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*[[File:AntiRacism.png]] Anti-Racism |
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*[[File:Anticol.png]] Anti-Society |
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*[[File:Insarch.png]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism]] |
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*[[File:Anpostleft.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Post-Left Anarchy]] |
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*[[File:QueerNil.png]] [[Queer Anarchism|Queer Nihilism]] |
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*[[File:Vegarch.png]] [[Total Liberationism|Veganarchism]] |
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}} |
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[[File:Aragorn.png]] '''Indigenous Anarcho-Nihilism''' {{Collapse| |
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*[[File:Animist Theocracy.png]] [[Pagan_Theocracy|Animism]] |
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*[[File:Indigenous Anarchism.png]] [[Indigenism#Variants|Indigenous Anarchism]] |
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*[[File:Anpostleft.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Post-Left Anarchy]] |
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}} |
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[[File:TangPing.png]] '''Tang Ping Movement''' {{Collapse| |
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*[[File:Anego.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism]] |
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*[[File:Anti-Altruism.png]] Anti-Altruism |
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*[[File:Anti-CCP.png]] Anti-CCP |
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*[[File:AntiHumanisticCapitalism.png]] Anti-Charity |
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*[[File:Anti-Natalism.png]] [[Antinatalism]] |
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*[[File:Antwork.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Anti-Work]] |
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*[[File:Ancyn.png]] {{PHB|Cynicism}} |
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}} |
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[[File:Fumiko.png]] '''Fumiko Kaneko Thought''' {{Collapse| |
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*[[File:Anfem.png]] [[Anarcha-Feminism]] |
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*[[File:AntiNation.png]] Anti-Nationalism<ref>Influencing when she wanted to kill the Japanese emperor</ref> |
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*[[File:Insan2.png]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism]] |
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*[[File:Nihil.png]] Existential Nihilism |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rYOXa_hoY The Anarcho Nihilist Anthem] (🤨 ok, let it be)<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rStAqSGAng DeathKult Disciples (999 Anthem)]<br> (and now is the '''real''' anthem)<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLpfbcXTeo8 I don't care any more]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXyRAsBp998 Bloodhail]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-bLdf8Bsw Hurt]<br> |
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-bLdf8Bsw Hurt]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Ty3YnWN80 East Hastings]<br> |
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Ty3YnWN80 East Hastings]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy8Gk0zRBx8 Radicals]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy8Gk0zRBx8 Radicals]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0 I've No More F***s To Give!] <br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjGBXckGB4 Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2)]<br> |
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjGBXckGB4 Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2)]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/MjRnyGQLUV0 I'm going to do it] |
[https://youtu.be/MjRnyGQLUV0 I'm going to do it]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/ |
[https://youtu.be/edpot4xOqsI I Am Nietzche]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/ |
[https://youtu.be/xhIP0I2Y2Uw Nothing I Can Do]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS27S3mspjU No Children]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/ |
[https://youtu.be/eVTXPUF4Oz4 In The End]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg Paint It Black]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/fksp8J73GUw Pain]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_MlBCb9-m8 Disenchanted]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4JCC_KLgdM Joker OST - Bathroom Dance]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBtlPT23PTM Beach House - Space Song]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/OuSSXOQ-1bI The Stains of Time]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFyF-UGAdwg Industrial Rock / Gothic - Shadow]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZahiAAsz-g&t Smile, Darn Ya, Smile]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKLxUpLrR0g Suicide Mouse Theme Song]<br>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8bVRdHCkUw SEMTARY - WORLD'S A F*CK]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/91GTuZWCQmY Molchat Doma - Sudno]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVNxoPQaeI Victor Zsasz]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB0IHVKTZno Rusty Cage - All the Fish Will Be Floating]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq8r1ZTma08 Life hates us now.] <br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gGdlLdBDwM POV: You’re A Corpse]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZLuk3SK-3k Yegor Letov - Kill, Kill, Kill (Егор Летов - Убивать, убивать, убивать)]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1p4TerTwok Paulo Sérgio - I Don't Believe Anything Anymore (Paulo Sérgio - Não Creio em Mais Nada)]<br> |
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Literally every song by Rusty Cage<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a16stlXptPE I Don't Love.]<br> |
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Every other song by Have A Nice Life and Dan Barrett. |
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*'''IRL´''' |
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*[[File:Renzo_Novatore-icon.png]] [[Illegalism|Renzo Novatore]] (1890-1922) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] {{PBW|Italyball|Italy}} |
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*[[File:Fumiko.png]] [[Anarcha-Feminism|Fumiko Kaneko]] (1903-1926) [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] {{PBW|Japanball|Japan}} |
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*[[File:AnOnto.png]] [[Post-Anarchism|Hakim Bey]] (partially) (1945-2022) |
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*[[File:Aragorn.png]] [[Indigenism#Variants|Aragorn!]] (-2020) [[File:Cball-US.png]] {{PBW|USAball|USA}} |
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*[[File:Annil.png]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism|Serafinski]] (?) |
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*[[File:Chaosnihil.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Flower Bomb]] (?) |
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*[[File:Econil.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Desert]] (?) |
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'''Fictional:''' |
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*[[File:Scientist.png]] [[Scientocracy|Rick Sanchez]] [[File:Cball-US.png]] {{PBW|USAball|USA}} (Rick and Morty) |
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*[[File:Jokerismball.png]] [[Illegalism|The Joker]] [[File:Cball-US.png]] {{PBW|USAball|USA}} (Batman) |
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Crime<br> |
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Insurrection<br> |
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Destroying f#cking civilization<br> |
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Morals<br> |
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Religion<br> |
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Social institutions<br> |
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Being put in mental asylum<br> |
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}} |
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'''Anarcho-Nihilism''' is an [[File:UltraAn.png]] ultraradical anarchist ideology and a form of [[File:Anin.png]] [[Anarcho-Individualism]] that rejects all social institutions completely, including religion, law and '''any''' type of morality. There's no consensus about the shortened form, and all three variants AnNihil, AnNil and AnNi are used. |
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*[[File:Marquis_de_Sade.png]] [[W:Marquis de Sade|Marquis de Sade]] (1740-1814) [[File:Cball-France.png]] Kingdom of France <br> |
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*[[File:Ego.png]] [[W:Max Stirner|Max Stirner]] (1806-1856) [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] German Confederation <br> |
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*[[File:BakuninHeg.png]] [[W:Mikhail Bakunin|Mikhail Bakunin]] (1814-1876), [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia <br> |
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*[[File:Chernyshevsky.png]] [[W:Nikolay Chernyshevsky|Nikolay Chernyshevsky]] (1828-1889), [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia <br> |
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*[[File:EgoNihil.png]] [[W:Jun Tsuji|Jun Tsuji]] (1884-1944), [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan |
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*[[File:Nova.png]] [[w:Renzo Novatore|Renzo Novatore]] (1890-1922) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy |
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*[[File:Strauss.png]] [[W:Leo Strauss|Leo Strauss]] (1899-1973), [[File:Cball-GermanEmpire.png]] Germany |
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*[[File:Fumiko.png]] [[W:Fumiko Kaneko|Fumiko Kaneko]] (1903-1926) [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan |
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*[[File:Aragorn.png]] Aragorn! (-2020) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:Annil.png]] Serafinski (-) |
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|dislikes = Moralism <br> Social structures <br> Everything else}} |
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'''Anarcho-Nihilism''' ('''AnNih''') is an [[File:Indiv.png]] Individualist [[File:Awaj.png]] [[:Category:Anarchists|Anarchist]] ideology who believes that life is without objective purpose, and as such, society, the state, and morals have no grounding in reality. |
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==Etymology== |
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He sees government, family, and law as false constructs that have no real reason to govern the life of the individual, and thinks that the individual should reject false restraints. Influenced by the [[w:Russian nihilist movement|Russian Nihilist Movement]], he sees extreme violence as a valid way to bring about political change. |
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Anarcho-Nihilism comes from «anarchy» meaning the absence of authority and Latin word «nihilo» that means «nothing» |
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==Beliefs== |
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=== [[File:RussianNil.png]] Russian Nihilism === |
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Anarcho-Nihilists' views may somewhat diverge, but generally:<br> |
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'''Russian Nihilism''' was an [[File:Leftunity.png]] [[:Category:Left Unity|economically left]], civically variable, [[File:Farm.png]] [[Agrarianism|agrarian]], and revolutionary [[File:Antimon.png]] anti-monarchist movement from the [[File:Cball-Russian_Empire.png]] Russian Empire in the late 19th century. It was primarily inspired by the thought of the [[File:Hegel.png]] Young Hegelians and Russian anarchist [[File:Acol.png]] Mikhail Bakunin. <br> |
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Ideas varied wildly between theoreticians. Some supported [[File:Awaj.png]] [[anarchism]] (Bakunin), some supported [[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[republicanism]] (Chernyshevsky), and some supported what was perceived as [[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[totalitarianism]] (Nechayev). One thing these theorists all shared was an opposition to traditional values, feudalism, monarchism, and religion. Another thing to note is that some nihilists were greatly influenced by Russian antinihilist literature such as Ivan Turgenevs "fathers and sons" or Fyodor Dostoevskys work and aspired to be like the nihilist characters in those stories. |
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a) they reject all social institutions and civilization, sometimes coming to [[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]];<br> |
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== History == |
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b) they maintain that although the history of Anarchism is a «glorious failure», oppression should be resisted even without a hope for change;<br> |
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'''Anarcho-Nihilism''' first appeared during the late 19th and early 20th century around the time of the Russian Revolution. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin Peter Kropotkin] defined nihilism as: "the symbol of struggle against all forms of tyranny, hypocrisy, and artificiality and for individual freedom." Nihilism is meant to bring down social structures in society that hold back the individual, and to Anarcho-Nihilists, this meant government. The Nihilist movement started to die out in Russia, but was revived by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss Leo Strauss] in 20th century Germany. Since then, Nihilist groups like the AIF have come to the front lines in order to try and revive the Nihilist movement. |
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c) they crave the [[File:AnOnto2.png]] immediate liberation which they find in crime and insurrection («the pleasure of destruction»);<br> |
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Some Anarcho-Nihilists (Serafinski) take a pessimistic stance that political change won't happen in the visible time. Among these Nihilists [[File:Econil.png]] ecological pessimism and [[File:Misanthropy.png]] misanthropy are also popular. Other Nihilists (Flower Bomb), although disillusioned, still hope for the future feral life free from social institutions. |
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== Personality and Behaviour == |
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There's a great confusion between Anarcho-Nihilism and [[File:ExisNil.png]] [[w:Existential_nihilism|existential nihilism]]. The latter is the philosophy denying all values, hence «meaninglessness of life». Meanwhile, «nihilism» in Anarcho-Nihilism means radical rebellion against civilization. |
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Anarcho-Nihilism is a loner, nonchalant with making relationships-since its also a connection to society. He is a typical quiet kid in the back of polcompball class, but is ready to 999+ kill streak every living ideology if he wills to. <s>Always beware the quiet kid </s> |
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Another common confusion is that between Anarcho-Nihilism and [[File:Schopenhauer.png]] [[w: Philosophical_pessimism|absolute pessimism]]. It's true that Anarcho-Nihilists are often depressed, but it doesn't mean they hate life; what they really hate is repressive structures being forced upon them. |
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== How to Draw == |
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Anarcho-Nihilism is close to [[File:Radape.png]] [[Radical Apoliticism]] except Radical Apoliticism wants to eradicate political mentality as such, while Anarcho-Nihilism wants to destroy social institutions but still remains an ideology. Another difference is that Radical Apoliticism hates political institutions, but not necessarily '''all''' institutions (e. g. law, religion, morality), by contrast with Anarcho-Nihilism. |
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==History== |
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===Historical background=== |
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'''Nihilism''' as a political movement first appeared in czarist 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), maintains, Nihilists are here to destroy, and building will be a job of the different people. |
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Although many Russian Nihilists were egoists, they were rather far from the egoism as understood by [[File:Stirner.png]] Stirner. Apart from being generally left-leaning, they embraced |
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[[File:Materialism.png]] ontological materialism, [[File:Philo-Determinism.png]] hard determinism and [[File:Scientocracy Small.png]] scientism. You could call them ordinary egoists as contrasted with philosophical. |
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Importantly, Russian Nihilism '''is not''' Anarcho-Nihilism despite their similarities. Regarding those seen as the ideologues of Russian Nihilism, Bakunin was a [[File:Socan2.png]] [[Social Anarchism|social anarchist]], Chernyshevsky was a [[File:Utsoc.png]] [[Utopian Socialism|utopian socialist]] and Nechayev was considered as a [[File:BarrCom.png]] [[Barracks Communism|totalitarian communist]], that doesn't count to Anarcho-Nihilism. |
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===Influences=== |
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Modern Anarcho-Nihilism is influenced by [[File:Anego.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism|Stirner's Egoism]] and Russian Nihilism. From Egoism it takes selfishness, 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. |
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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 and (potentially) insurrections. |
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However, Anarcho-Nihilists go even further. Egoists wish an establishment of the egoist society, while Nihilists are radical enough to put even Egoism under question, recognizing its [[File:Egosoc.png]] restrictive potential. Even egoist society isn't entirely free if egoism becomes a prescription, an institution. This is why Anarcho-Nihilism rejects all social institutions whatever they are. |
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Anarcho-Nihilism intersects with other [[File:Anpostleft.png]] [[Post-Leftism|post-left]] movements. For example, Anarcho-Nihilism is well compatible with [[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]] sharing with it the [[File:Anticiv.png]] hate for civilization. However, in such case a nihilist tends to be merely [[File:Egoprimf.png]] feral rather than a «noble savage» |
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===Origin=== |
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quote="My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things." |
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|speaker=[[File:Renzo Novatore-icon.png]] [[Illegalism|Renzo Novatore]] |
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Presumably, the first Anarcho-Nihilist was an Italian [[File:Illeg.png]] [[Illegalism|illegalist]] [[File:Renzo_Novatore-icon.png]] Renzo Novatore («I Am Also a Nihilist»), whose philosophy was desribed as [[File:EgoNihil2.png]] {{PHB|Stirnerism|Ego-Nihilism}}. |
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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 being Anarcho-Nihilists in the full sense. |
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[[File:ChaosStar.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. |
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Anarcho-Nihilism doesn't support any utopia or new system of governing, but negation of any society. Our reaction towards society, civilization, and so on should be hostility. There are no utopian visions, no political programs to be followed, the resistance is pure negation. Anarcho-Nihilism speaks about pleasure of destruction, destruction of society, social construct, morality and so on. Anarcho-Nihilists reject revolution as impossible, instead of, they proposes insurrection - spontaneous resistance against society and the state. |
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Some people considers Anarcho-Nihilism as simple connection of anarchism with existential nihilism, like "life is bad, suffering and we should end it". That isn't correct interpretation, because not every person considered as Anarcho-Nihilist has negative attitude towards life, for example Renzo Novatore wrote in one of his book about "happy" nihilism. But also some Anarcho-Nihilists, like Fumiko Kaneko said that they "negate life". "Though some strains of nihilism certainly arrive at a place of paralysis, the strain that collides with anarchism tends to be one of explosive creativity and relentless action. " - Blessed is the Flame |
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Anarcho-Nihilism may have two factions: these completely defeatist and pessimistic, and these more optimistic and active. Second faction believes that insurrection can be successful, and we can fight social construct and live free and happy with using hedonism. First sees only negation of life itself. |
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*Excluded from society. |
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*Introverted loner, wants to live alone, isolates themselves from society. His life is basically playing games and watching anime. |
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*Depressed, hates this world. |
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*Antisocial, doesn't want to integrate with people. |
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*Doesn't care about anything. |
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*Lazy and doesn't want to work. |
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*Bases their personality on Joker. |
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*Average quiet kid that could kill 1000 people during shooting. |
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*Asocial, don't have any friends. |
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*Asexual. |
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*Always be serious except when he taking on Joker. |
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*[[File:Avar.png]] [[Avaritionism]] - We have a lot in common. |
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*[[File:Anpostleft.png]] [[Post-Left Anarchism]] - Welcome to the club buddy. |
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*[[File:Anin.png]] [[Anarcho-Individualism]] - You get me. |
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*[[File:Ego.png]] [[Egoism]] - Stirner was right about a lot of things. |
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*[[File:Agorismf.png]] [[Agorism]] - Buying guns on the black market is cool. (Also just because our flag is similar, We are not the same!) |
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* [[File:Anti-Humanism.png]] [[Anti-Humanism]] - "Humanity" and modern existence is boring and depressing. |
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*[[File:Post-Genderism.png]] [[Postgenderism|Post-Genderism]] - Yes, it is all meaningless isn't it. |
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*[[File:Anpostleft.png]] [[Post-Leftism]] - Welcome to the club, buddy. But you still believe that something can be changed. |
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*Wait, frenemies?! Why bother? Either you’re in the club, or I will club YOU! |
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*[[File:Anin.png]] [[Anarcho-Individualism]] - You get me. But you don't go far enough and you are still spooked by morality. |
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*[[File:Anego.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism]] - Stirner was right about a lot of things.But you cannot be absolutely unique, you are part of this whole meaningless cycle of life, just accept death. |
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*[[File:Agorismf.png]] [[Agorism]] - Buying guns on the black market is cool. (Also just because our flag is similar, we are not the same!). But you are pacifist and believe in "pacifist revolution" which is laughable. |
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*[[File:Illeg.png]] [[Illegalism]] - Unorganized crime is praxis. |
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*[[File:Insan2.png]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism]] - “From the shattered tools and bones of our predecessors, we craft our own weapons. Nothing is guaranteed to work, yet we attack regardless. We do so nakedly, having shed the rags of morality, ideology, and politics that had accumulated over time. We confront this world raw, in all its horrifying glory.” |
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*[[File:Anqueer.png]] [[Queer Anarchism]] - Be gay, do crime. Let's go spread terror in catboy outfits together. But your modern variants are pathetic, focusing only on social media wars on idpol. You can cancel me all you want, but it's true. |
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*[[File:Soul.png]] [[Soulism]] - Drugs are making my life better, but your utopianism is stupid. <s>You say that I can have what I want in lucid dreams, take psychedelics that change my state of consciousness, shift my mind into desired utopia permanently, or upload my mind to a computer? Sounds good!</s> |
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*[[File:Apolit.png]] [[Apoliticism]] - F*ck that circus called politics. But you are still enslaved by law and morality. |
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*[[File:Radape.png]] [[Radical Apoliticism]] - "There are no demands to be made, no utopic visions to be upheld, no political programs to be followed - the path of resistance is one of pure negation." |
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*[[File:Anfem.png]] [[Anarcha-Feminism]] - Same as Queer Anarchism, you are too into culture war, turn off Twitter, pick up a gun and kill patriarchal politicians and clergy who oppresses you, reject family values, and live free. |
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*[[File:Aneco.png]] [[Eco-Anarchism]] - Some of my followers support it, but we're all gonna die along with the natural environment one day, so it's meaningless. |
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*[[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]] - We both hate civilization. <s>But playing video games and watching anime that are products of technology are things that keep me alive in this boring and depressing world.</s> |
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*[[File:Indigenous Anarchism.png]] [[Indigenism#Variants|Indigenous Anarchism]] - Same as Eco-Anarchism, just reject and abandon all traditions, including worship of nature and we are fine. But Aragorn! is based. |
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*[[File:Blackan.png]] [[Black Anarchism]] - Black Lives Matter, really? No lives matter, same as Anarcha-Feminism picking up guns and killing slave owners and cops, and abandoning peaceful protests. |
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*[[File:Egocom.png]] [[Ego-Communism]] - Cool drugs, but really, Marx? I can leave society at least. <s>My [[File:NihilCom.png]]communist variant likes you</s> |
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*[[File:BudAn.png]] [[Buddhist Anarchism]] - I don't like religion, morality, asceticism, and communal lifestyle, but we agree that living in this world is suffering. |
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*[[File:StateathFedora.png]] [[State Atheism]] - Atheism is based, but humanism is cringe. Morality is still a manifestation of oppressive theism. Reject belief in any higher “goal”, reject the sacred. The true path is the path of pure denial. |
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*[[File:OOTS.png]] [[Death Worship]] - Authoritarian but we both love death. |
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*[[File:Post-an.png]] [[Post-Anarchism]] - I don't understand you at all, but rejecting classical anarchism is good. |
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*[[File:Anticiv.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Anti-Civ]] - End civilization! |
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*[[File:Existentialist Anarchism.png]] [[Existentialist Anarchism]] - "I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a fucking comedy." |
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*[[File:GE.png]] [[Gift Economy]] - I hate anything related to Christmas and don't believe in Santa. But thanks for the antidepressant pills. |
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*[[File:Foucault.png]] [[Post-Anarchism|Foucouldianism]] - Good job with comparing psychiatric hospitals, schools, and prisons. They all are oppressive institutions, that limit my freedom in all possible ways. |
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*[[File:Posadist.png]] [[Posadism]] - Yes, world sooner end into ashes with ruins, and better early than never. But I don't believe that aliens will come and save humans asses. |
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*[[File:Christy.png]] [[File:JewTheo.png]] [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Theocracy (Disambiguation)|Theocracy]] - "The creation of a sick fantasy. Inhabitant of senile and impotent brains. Companion and comforter of spirits born to slavery. A pill for constipated minds. Marxism for the faint of heart." |
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*[[File:Tsar.png]] [[Absolute Monarchism|Tsar Alexander II]] - Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. |
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*[[File:Humanismpix.png]] {{PHB|Humanism}} - "An abstract word with a negative connotation, long on power, short on truth. An obscene mask painted on the mean face of a shrewd vulgarian for the purpose of dominating the multitude of sentimentalist idiots and imbeciles." |
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*[[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] [[Neoliberalism]] - Even if markets produced innovation, who cares? |
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*[[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism]] - "Penal servitude for the semi-intelligent, a cowshed of imbecility. A Circe who transforms her adoring fans into dogs and pigs. A prostitute for the master, a pimp of the foreigner. Child-eater, parent-slanderer, and scoffer at heroes." |
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*[[File:Altr.png]] [[Alt-Right]] - You implement literally every social structure I want to break down. You are the real degenerate. |
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*[[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]] - "Discipline, discipline; obedience, obedience; slavery and ignorance, pregnant with authority. A bourgeois body grotesquely fattened by a vulgar Christian creature. A medley of fetishism, sectarianism, and cowardice." |
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*[[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism]] - [[w:Fathers and Sons (novel)|NO THAT ISNT AN ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF THE NIHILIST MOVEMENT]]! |
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*[[File:Tsar.png]] [[Absolute Monarchism|Tsar Alexander II]] - Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. |
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*[[File:AlexanderIII.png]] [[Reactionary Modernism|Tsar Alexander III]] - Consequences? For my Actions? What the fu-'''''ACK!''''' |
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*[[File:Bckchn.png]] [[Libertarian Municipalism]] - Yes, I hate society, I am a misanthrope and lifestylist. You aren't even an anarchist so stfu. |
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*[[File:Ansynd2.png]] [[Anarcho-Syndicalism]] - State is down? Your stupid unions and federations will be next. |
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*[[File:Platformism.png]] [[Platformism]] - Same as Ansynd you fucking tankie. |
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*[[File:Avar.png]] [[Avaritionism]] and [[File:Ancapf.png]] [[Anarcho-Capitalism]] - It's not about the money, it's about sending a message. |
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*[[File:Anrel.png]] [[Religious Anarchism]] - Oxymoron. Religion is incompatible with anarchism because it requires the individual to obey external forces and strictly adhere to dogmas. |
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*[[File:Ancon.png]] [[Anarcho-Conservatism]] - Same as above. |
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*[[File:Conservative.png]] [[Conservatism]] - You don’t need to conserve anything, because nothing has meaning. <s> Also it’s not a phase dad! </s> |
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*[[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism]] - Opposition to conservatism is based, but creation of new “progressive” values is cringe. |
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*Every other ideology, especially authoritarian, capitalist, religious, pragmatic, and conservative ones. |
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==Bibliography== |
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== Further Information == |
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=== Literature |
===[[File:Book.png]] Literature=== |
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====Primary Literature==== |
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*[https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Individualism-Liberalism-Feminism-Anarchism/dp/1895431786 The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism] by [[w:L. Susan Brown|L. Susan Brown]] |
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=====Aragorn!===== |
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*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-nihilism-anarchy-and-the-21st-century Nihilism, Anarchism, and the 21st Century] by Aragorn! |
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*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-nihilism-anarchy-and-the-21st-century Nihilism, Anarchism, and the 21st Century] by [[Indigenism|Aragorn!]] |
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*[https://archive.org/stream/LeoStraussGermanNihilismIntegral1941/Leo%20Strauss%20-%20%27%27German%20Nihilism%27%27%20%5BIntegral%2C%201941%5D_djvu.txt German Nihilism] by [[w:Leo Strauss|Leo Strauss]] |
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=====Serafinski===== |
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*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/serafinski-blessed-is-the-flame Blessed is the Flame:An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism] by Serafinski |
*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/serafinski-blessed-is-the-flame Blessed is the Flame:An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism] by Serafinski |
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=====Collection of Literature===== |
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*[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/chernyshevsky/1863/what-is-to-be-done.pdf A Vital Question: Or What Is to Be Done?] By [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Chernyshevsky Nikolay Chernyshevsky] |
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*[https://archive.org/stream/LeoStraussGermanNihilismIntegral1941/Leo%20Strauss%20-%20%27%27German%20Nihilism%27%27%20%5BIntegral%2C%201941%5D_djvu.txt German Nihilism] by [[w:Leo Strauss|Leo Strauss]] |
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*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-res-kaneko-fumiko-because-i-wanted-to Because I Wanted To] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumiko_Kaneko Fumiko Kaneko] |
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*[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/chernyshevsky/1863/what-is-to-be-done.pdf A Vital Question: Or What Is to Be Done?] By [[w:Nikolay_Chernyshevsky|Nikolay Chernyshevsky]] |
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*[https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Prison+Memoirs+of+a+Japanese+Woman&rlz=1C1ONGR_en-GBAU936AU936&oq=The+Prison+Memoirs+of+a+Japanese+Woman&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i64.146j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman] by Kaneko Fumiko |
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*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-res-kaneko-fumiko-because-i-wanted-to Because I Wanted To] by [[File:Fumiko.png]] [[W:Fumiko Kaneko|Fumiko Kaneko]] |
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*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0873328027 The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman] by [[File:Fumiko.png]] [[W:Fumiko Kaneko|Fumiko Kaneko]] |
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*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/keiji-nishitani-nihilism-egoism Nihilism as Egoism] by Keiji Nishitani |
*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/keiji-nishitani-nihilism-egoism Nihilism as Egoism] by Keiji Nishitani |
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*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-nihilist-communism Nihilist Communism] by ''Monsieur Dupont'' |
*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-nihilist-communism Nihilist Communism] by [[File:NihilCom.png]] ''Monsieur Dupont'' |
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*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1387253638 Power Nihilism: A Case for Moral & Political Nihilism] by ''James Theodore Stillwell III'', ''Matthew Ray'', and ''Brett Stevens'' |
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*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/flower-bomb-descending-into-madness-an-anarchist-nihilist-diary-of-anti-psychiatry Descending into Madness An Anarchist-Nihilist Diary of Anti-Psychiatry] by Flower Bomb |
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==Further Information== |
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<center><small>[[File:Anego.png|18px]] [[Anarcho-Egoism]], [[File:Anin.png|18px]] [[Anarcho-Individualism]], [[File:Illeg.png|18px]] [[Illegalism]], [[File:Insarch.png|18px]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism]], [[File:Anpostleft.png|18px]] [[Post-Leftism]] </small></center> |
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*[[w:Russian nihilist movement|Russian Nihilist Movement]] |
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*[[w:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei|Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei]] |
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*[[w:Fumiko Kaneko|Fumiko Kaneko]] |
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*[[w:Renzo Novatore|Renzo Novatore]] |
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*[[w:Nikolay Chernyshevsky|Nikolay Chernyshevsky]] |
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBa3lFjBOXY Anarchy Radio on Post-left Anarchism, Egoism, Nihilism and Anti-Civ] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCQ3dqsYp_QUcYsnEJTf8w The Comfy Milk Shop] |
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBa3lFjBOXY Anarchy Radio on Post-left Anarchism, Egoism, Nihilism and Anti-Civ] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCQ3dqsYp_QUcYsnEJTf8w The Comfy Milk Shop] |
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5woPQU2uug Anarcho-Nihilism Review || The Ideology of Insurrection] by [https://www.youtube.com/user/flavacrava Jreg] |
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5woPQU2uug Anarcho-Nihilism Review || The Ideology of Insurrection] by [https://www.youtube.com/user/flavacrava Jreg] |
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Latest revision as of 00:40, 18 August 2024
Anarcho-Nihilism is an ultraradical anarchist ideology and a form of
Anarcho-Individualism that rejects all social institutions completely, including religion, law and any type of morality. There's no consensus about the shortened form, and all three variants AnNihil, AnNil and AnNi are used.
Etymology
Anarcho-Nihilism comes from «anarchy» meaning the absence of authority and Latin word «nihilo» that means «nothing»
Beliefs
Anarcho-Nihilists' views may somewhat diverge, but generally:
a) they reject all social institutions and civilization, sometimes coming to Anarcho-Primitivism;
b) they maintain that although the history of Anarchism is a «glorious failure», oppression should be resisted even without a hope for change;
c) they crave the immediate liberation which they find in crime and insurrection («the pleasure of destruction»);
Some Anarcho-Nihilists (Serafinski) take a pessimistic stance that political change won't happen in the visible time. Among these Nihilists ecological pessimism and
misanthropy are also popular. Other Nihilists (Flower Bomb), although disillusioned, still hope for the future feral life free from social institutions.
There's a great confusion between Anarcho-Nihilism and existential nihilism. The latter is the philosophy denying all values, hence «meaninglessness of life». Meanwhile, «nihilism» in Anarcho-Nihilism means radical rebellion against civilization.
Another common confusion is that between Anarcho-Nihilism and absolute pessimism. It's true that Anarcho-Nihilists are often depressed, but it doesn't mean they hate life; what they really hate is repressive structures being forced upon them.
Anarcho-Nihilism is close to Radical Apoliticism except Radical Apoliticism wants to eradicate political mentality as such, while Anarcho-Nihilism wants to destroy social institutions but still remains an ideology. Another difference is that Radical Apoliticism hates political institutions, but not necessarily all institutions (e. g. law, religion, morality), by contrast with Anarcho-Nihilism.
History
Historical background
Nihilism as a political movement first appeared in czarist Russia in the middle of the 19th century and is known under the name of Russian Nihilism. The leading Russian anarchist of the time
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
socialism, however, their primary aim was a destructive revolt, first cultural then armed, which resulted in the assassination of the Russian czar
Alexander II. As the nihilist Bazarov, the character of the «Fathers and Sons» novel (1862), maintains, Nihilists are here to destroy, and building will be a job of the different people.
Although many Russian Nihilists were egoists, they were rather far from the egoism as understood by Stirner. Apart from being generally left-leaning, they embraced
ontological materialism,
hard determinism and
scientism. You could call them ordinary egoists as contrasted with philosophical.
Importantly, Russian Nihilism is not Anarcho-Nihilism despite their similarities. Regarding those seen as the ideologues of Russian Nihilism, Bakunin was a social anarchist, Chernyshevsky was a
utopian socialist and Nechayev was considered as a
totalitarian communist, that doesn't count to Anarcho-Nihilism.
Influences
Modern Anarcho-Nihilism is influenced by Stirner's Egoism and Russian Nihilism. From Egoism it takes selfishness, 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
quite literally as exemplified by Anarcho-Nihilists.
Another major influence for Anarcho-Nihilism is 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 and (potentially) insurrections.
However, Anarcho-Nihilists go even further. Egoists wish an establishment of the egoist society, while Nihilists are radical enough to put even Egoism under question, recognizing its restrictive potential. Even egoist society isn't entirely free if egoism becomes a prescription, an institution. This is why Anarcho-Nihilism rejects all social institutions whatever they are.
Anarcho-Nihilism intersects with other post-left movements. For example, Anarcho-Nihilism is well compatible with
Anarcho-Primitivism sharing with it the
hate for civilization. However, in such case a nihilist tends to be merely
feral rather than a «noble savage»
Origin
"My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things."
Presumably, the first Anarcho-Nihilist was an Italian illegalist
Renzo Novatore («I Am Also a Nihilist»), whose philosophy was desribed as
Ego-Nihilism.
Examples
The only known organization relating itself to Anarcho-Nihilism is a Greek terrorist organization Nihilist Faction (Φράξια Μηδενιστών). Their attacks include three they 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 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 proclamation suggests that they just took some inspiration from Russian nihilist movement rather than being Anarcho-Nihilists in the full sense.
Anarcho-Nihilism remains a relatively minor tendency within Anarchism with the lack of any associations adhering to it. However, the
Chaos Star appropriated by Anarcho-Nihilists as a symbol keeps appearing here and there, so the tendency seems to be sustainable.
Variants
Major
Anarcho-Nihilism doesn't support any utopia or new system of governing, but negation of any society. Our reaction towards society, civilization, and so on should be hostility. There are no utopian visions, no political programs to be followed, the resistance is pure negation. Anarcho-Nihilism speaks about pleasure of destruction, destruction of society, social construct, morality and so on. Anarcho-Nihilists reject revolution as impossible, instead of, they proposes insurrection - spontaneous resistance against society and the state.
Minor
Some people considers Anarcho-Nihilism as simple connection of anarchism with existential nihilism, like "life is bad, suffering and we should end it". That isn't correct interpretation, because not every person considered as Anarcho-Nihilist has negative attitude towards life, for example Renzo Novatore wrote in one of his book about "happy" nihilism. But also some Anarcho-Nihilists, like Fumiko Kaneko said that they "negate life". "Though some strains of nihilism certainly arrive at a place of paralysis, the strain that collides with anarchism tends to be one of explosive creativity and relentless action. " - Blessed is the Flame
Internal conflicts in ideology
Anarcho-Nihilism may have two factions: these completely defeatist and pessimistic, and these more optimistic and active. Second faction believes that insurrection can be successful, and we can fight social construct and live free and happy with using hedonism. First sees only negation of life itself.
Schools of Thought
WIP
Personality and Behaviour
How it acts[2]
- Excluded from society.
- Introverted loner, wants to live alone, isolates themselves from society. His life is basically playing games and watching anime.
- Depressed, hates this world.
- Antisocial, doesn't want to integrate with people.
- Doesn't care about anything.
- Lazy and doesn't want to work.
- Bases their personality on Joker.
- Average quiet kid that could kill 1000 people during shooting.
- Asocial, don't have any friends.
- Asexual.
- Always be serious except when he taking on Joker.
How to draw
Flags
Drawing
- Draw a ball,
- Draw a diagonal line with a lighter shade of black (#141414),
- Paint the right side with the same shade of black,
- Paint the left side with grey (#3D3D3D),
- You're done.
But for what? It's pointless anyway, correct vexillology is unnecessary.
Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
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Black | #141414 | 20, 20, 20 | |
Grey | #3D3D3D | 61, 61, 61 |
Variation Designs
TBA
Relationships (not like it matters anyway)
Friends
Anarcho-Nihilism has no ideological friends since it would imply that some ideology has more values and meanings than others.
Frenemies
Post-Leftism - Welcome to the club, buddy. But you still believe that something can be changed.
Anarcho-Individualism - You get me. But you don't go far enough and you are still spooked by morality.
Anarcho-Egoism - Stirner was right about a lot of things.But you cannot be absolutely unique, you are part of this whole meaningless cycle of life, just accept death.
Agorism - Buying guns on the black market is cool. (Also just because our flag is similar, we are not the same!). But you are pacifist and believe in "pacifist revolution" which is laughable.
Illegalism - Unorganized crime is praxis.
Insurrectionary Anarchism - “From the shattered tools and bones of our predecessors, we craft our own weapons. Nothing is guaranteed to work, yet we attack regardless. We do so nakedly, having shed the rags of morality, ideology, and politics that had accumulated over time. We confront this world raw, in all its horrifying glory.”
Queer Anarchism - Be gay, do crime. Let's go spread terror in catboy outfits together. But your modern variants are pathetic, focusing only on social media wars on idpol. You can cancel me all you want, but it's true.
Soulism - Drugs are making my life better, but your utopianism is stupid.
You say that I can have what I want in lucid dreams, take psychedelics that change my state of consciousness, shift my mind into desired utopia permanently, or upload my mind to a computer? Sounds good!Apoliticism - F*ck that circus called politics. But you are still enslaved by law and morality.
Radical Apoliticism - "There are no demands to be made, no utopic visions to be upheld, no political programs to be followed - the path of resistance is one of pure negation."
Anarcha-Feminism - Same as Queer Anarchism, you are too into culture war, turn off Twitter, pick up a gun and kill patriarchal politicians and clergy who oppresses you, reject family values, and live free.
Eco-Anarchism - Some of my followers support it, but we're all gonna die along with the natural environment one day, so it's meaningless.
Anarcho-Primitivism - We both hate civilization.
But playing video games and watching anime that are products of technology are things that keep me alive in this boring and depressing world.Indigenous Anarchism - Same as Eco-Anarchism, just reject and abandon all traditions, including worship of nature and we are fine. But Aragorn! is based.
Black Anarchism - Black Lives Matter, really? No lives matter, same as Anarcha-Feminism picking up guns and killing slave owners and cops, and abandoning peaceful protests.
Ego-Communism - Cool drugs, but really, Marx? I can leave society at least.
Mycommunist variant likes you
Buddhist Anarchism - I don't like religion, morality, asceticism, and communal lifestyle, but we agree that living in this world is suffering.
State Atheism - Atheism is based, but humanism is cringe. Morality is still a manifestation of oppressive theism. Reject belief in any higher “goal”, reject the sacred. The true path is the path of pure denial.
Death Worship - Authoritarian but we both love death.
Post-Anarchism - I don't understand you at all, but rejecting classical anarchism is good.
Anti-Civ - End civilization!
Existentialist Anarchism - "I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a fucking comedy."
Gift Economy - I hate anything related to Christmas and don't believe in Santa. But thanks for the antidepressant pills.
Foucouldianism - Good job with comparing psychiatric hospitals, schools, and prisons. They all are oppressive institutions, that limit my freedom in all possible ways.
Posadism - Yes, world sooner end into ashes with ruins, and better early than never. But I don't believe that aliens will come and save humans asses.
Enemies
Theocracy - "The creation of a sick fantasy. Inhabitant of senile and impotent brains. Companion and comforter of spirits born to slavery. A pill for constipated minds. Marxism for the faint of heart."
Humanism - "An abstract word with a negative connotation, long on power, short on truth. An obscene mask painted on the mean face of a shrewd vulgarian for the purpose of dominating the multitude of sentimentalist idiots and imbeciles."
Authoritarianism - "Penal servitude for the semi-intelligent, a cowshed of imbecility. A Circe who transforms her adoring fans into dogs and pigs. A prostitute for the master, a pimp of the foreigner. Child-eater, parent-slanderer, and scoffer at heroes."
Socialism - "Discipline, discipline; obedience, obedience; slavery and ignorance, pregnant with authority. A bourgeois body grotesquely fattened by a vulgar Christian creature. A medley of fetishism, sectarianism, and cowardice."
Tsar Alexander II - Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
Tsar Alexander III - Consequences? For my Actions? What the fu-ACK!
Libertarian Municipalism - Yes, I hate society, I am a misanthrope and lifestylist. You aren't even an anarchist so stfu.
Anarcho-Syndicalism - State is down? Your stupid unions and federations will be next.
Platformism - Same as Ansynd you fucking tankie.
Avaritionism and
Anarcho-Capitalism - It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.
Religious Anarchism - Oxymoron. Religion is incompatible with anarchism because it requires the individual to obey external forces and strictly adhere to dogmas.
Anarcho-Conservatism - Same as above.
Conservatism - You don’t need to conserve anything, because nothing has meaning.
Also it’s not a phase dad!Progressivism - Opposition to conservatism is based, but creation of new “progressive” values is cringe.
- Every other ideology, especially authoritarian, capitalist, religious, pragmatic, and conservative ones.
Bibliography
Literature
Primary Literature
Aragorn!
Serafinski
- Blessed is the Flame:An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism by Serafinski
Collection of Literature
- German Nihilism by Leo Strauss
- A Vital Question: Or What Is to Be Done? By Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Because I Wanted To by
Fumiko Kaneko
- The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman by
Fumiko Kaneko
- Nihilism as Egoism by Keiji Nishitani
- Nihilist Communism by
Monsieur Dupont
- Power Nihilism: A Case for Moral & Political Nihilism by James Theodore Stillwell III, Matthew Ray, and Brett Stevens
- Descending into Madness An Anarchist-Nihilist Diary of Anti-Psychiatry by Flower Bomb
Further Information
For overlapping political theory see:
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Websites
TBA
Wikipedia
- Russian Nihilist Movement
- Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei
- Fumiko Kaneko
- Renzo Novatore
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Online Communities
TBA
Subreddits
TBA
Videos
- Anarchy Radio on Post-left Anarchism, Egoism, Nihilism and Anti-Civ by The Comfy Milk Shop
- Anarcho-Nihilism Review || The Ideology of Insurrection by Jreg
People
Serafinski
Flower Bomb
Aragorn!
Organizations
Nihilist Faction (nominally)
Gallery
Comics
Portraits
Portraits of Variants
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Russian Nihilism
Portraits of Alternate Designs
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Anarcho-Nihilist Jokerism
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Anarcha-Nihilism
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Anarcha-Nihilism
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Anarcho Nihilism Egoist glasses