Anarcho-Nihilism: Difference between revisions

'''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 [[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), maintained, Nihilists are here to destroy, and building will be a job of the different people.

It worth noting that, 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