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Title: Insurrectional Nihilism Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl Date: July 30, 2020 Language: en Topics: anarcho-nihilism, nihilism, insurrectionary anarchy, insurrectionism Source: https://invisiblexarmy.wordpress.com/2020/07/30/insurrectional-nihilism/
“Rebels without a cause” is often used as a derision against those who
seek the destruction of status quo without any idea as to what should
replace it; it’s a common accusation thrown at nihilists and other
anarchists, oftentimes even by leftists. But must rebels have a cause?
Every cause comes with it a blueprint for the future, a new world order
to be established in the ruins of the old world. But there’s no
guarantee that anyone’s vision of the future is truly an improvement on
the human condition, or that it will survive contact with human nature.
And while we’re waiting on the futurists and visionaries to plot the
perfect order, people are dying of existing systems of oppression as we
speak, and any delay is little different from a death sentence to these
minorities and marginalized. From a nihilist point of view, the
so-called human “progress” is little more than the same oppressors
getting better public relations, and it’s more than likely that nothing
about the world – past, present, or even future – is worth keeping.
Under this premise, wanton destruction is not only acceptable, it’s in
fact desirable for nihilists, whose job is to tear down everything that
currently exists and facilitate perpetual revolutions in the future.
While nihilists may sneer at the very idea of rebranding, there is some
merit in separating nihilists who choose to resist the injustice of the
world from those that choose apathy and inaction; anarcho-nihilism was
the term used in Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski, which some views as
redundant when nihilism is readily a strain of anarchism, and it
nevertheless falls prey to Capitalist propaganda of all anarchists being
nihilists. Insurrectional nihilism, then, focuses the conversation on
what separates these nihilists from others: unbridled rage at the status
quo and a burning desire to see the world reduced to cinder.
Insurrectional nihilism is also a good contrast to something we like to
call “institutional nihilism,” an attitude commonly exhibits by
political moderates and centrists: that since better things aren’t
possible and status quo is God, any resistance is futile and any change
should be rejected. While these cowards will never accept the nihilist
label, they start out with the same premise of “no future,” and arrived
at the bleakest conclusion: instead of the outrage, despair, or humor of
other nihilists, institutional nihilists chose the path of aggressive
apathy. They will never fight systems of oppression in any way, shape,
and form, and they don’t even have the decency to get out of the way and
watch the world burn. They insist on burying and ridiculing anyone who
wants to put up a fight and potentially make a difference, however small
and temporary it may be. They saw a world without hope and decide to
keep everyone in it so all can suffer with them. We see the same world
without hope and future, but we decide to raise bloody hell and burn it
all down, because it deserves to burn and there’s just a small chance
that something better might be built in its ashes. While institutional
nihilists are cynics with utter faith in their privilege to trample
everyone beneath their feet, we are idealists who believes in nothing
but the right and necessity to rebel, to resist, and to fight.
We are insurrectional nihilists. There is no hope, therefore we rebel.