What Is Anarcho-Nihilism?

What Is Anarcho-Nihilism?

by Anansi’s Library (YouTube channel)

Let's discuss anarchist nihilism, and my favorite nihilist text, Blessed Is The Flame!
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00:12 || 2 Exerpt: Blessed Is The Flame
02:35 || 3 Introduction
04:35 || 4 Nihilism, Classic and Russian
11:40 || 5 Anarchism and Nihilism
30:45 || 6 Conclusion

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My favorite part of the flamebook is the irony in which Serafinski -- totally convinced he is the UBERnihilist, just "above it all", basking in the glow of his "radicalness", etc -- fails to see how his deathcamp-survivor grandma (who he talks about in this patronizing way as someone who's been defeated/has resigned) ... is actually easily 1000000000000000x more of a based and badass nihilist than he will ever be.

All hail: grandma Serafinski!

One of us! ONE OF US!

that reminds me! what exactly is the difference between defeat/resignation and lofty declarations of being "above it all"?

does every defeated soul choose between delusional grandiosity and despair?

"The plague of domestication has reached into every wild space! The lines of colonization have crossed us!"

lol, omg...

for a supposedly "nihilist text", this whole thing reads like religious scripture. Not very amoral. Not very nihilistic.

Because welcoming domestication and colonization is amoral and nihilistic?

Are you that much of a dumb? Yes.

a philosophically-consistent nihilist position would be one in which you don't see the world as "fucked", you just see it "as is" without necessarily approving or disapproving.

Nihilism is about cynicism and skepticism of all value, of Value-as-such, whereas BITF is totally shot to hell with progressivism and leftwing values.

If you want to rep leftwing values, that's fine. I just don't see how it's "nihilist".

Serafinski cites the CCF as an example of this tendency which only belies my point: realistically, what is the actual difference between CCF and a leftystalinist group like RAF?

A different coat of paint maybe?

Both amount to ultraleftwing strugglismo. Only difference between the german marxists and these so-called "nihilists" is that the RAF did crazy shit like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction#List_of_assaults_attribut... for like 30+ years

whereas the "nihilist tendency/scene" that book arises from pretty much just did this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hamilton/comments/aycspu/locke_street_riot_case...

...and was basically never heard from again lol

I've definitely noticed this tendency where the more raging and "hardcore" a movements rhetoric gets, the more lame and petty its actual actions become.

This seems like a very meaningful topic to you, one filled with so much seething ressentiment and right AND wrong ways of discussing it to fit the identify that you have imposed upon anarchist-nihilism. What are we nihilists if not philosophically consistent! We can't let them think incorrect things about we anarchist-nihilists!

i think you make interesting points! but your jump off is still a choice, no?

in my view (among others), a nihilist could absolutely perceive human society to be a dark sea of greed and the will to power, so how is that not a philosophically consistent nihilist position?

nihilism is often understood as a lens of critique for dubious values, rather than an absolute dogma of rejecting any and all values, which i would argue is impossible anyway?

angels on the head of a pin or whatever. you can't literally reject all values without making a value judgement so ...

"Serafinski cites the CCF as an example of this tendency which only belies my point: realistically, what is the actual difference between CCF and a leftystalinist group like RAF?"

lol... So it seems, you haven't been reading a lot from CCF's publications or know much about this (non-)crowd. CCF anarchos in Greece are/were the sworn enemies of Stalinists, as much as they hate the cops. So kinda dumb you're taking a quote from CCF as a sign of Lefty Stalinist corruption.

The claims they make about themselves are irrelevant.

The structure of it all remains essentially the same.

There's some new decor, some new adornments, some new fancy accoutrements and "nihilist" curtains, but the room remains essentially the same.

It's still basically just class struggle arising from a marxist analysis. Stuff that, from a Nietzschean perspective would be considered very much couched in a POV of ressentiment.

think you mean - an analysis of power that isn't couched in its own circular justification ;)

"The claims they make about themselves are irrelevant."

"...only mine does. Coz I FEEL they are the same!"

Yeah, got that already, lol. So easy to make up everything out of your ass! I heard this is how shit men are born. *chuckles*

Your reading comprehension is complete ass.
"Fucked" is a rejection of hope and the drive to continue the fight with hope as a non-factor.
This (No Future) is absolutely a philosophically consistent position of anarchist-nihilists.
Read AND comprehend what you're reading BEFORE you take to writing seething comments. It will save you a lot of embarrassment in the "future."

But also, a HUGE FuuuuuUCK YOU to Youtubers (or other would be social media celeb wannabes) turning our ideas into "content" no matter their intention.

Cool video Anansi. After watching this I have started working through your narration of the Ethiopian revolution and have learned a lot. Keep it up!

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