What does "anarcho-nihilism" mean to me? by Asterion 14 MAR 2025 What does "anarcho-nihilism" mean to me? I'm not entirely sure. Or maybe I just can't explain it to someone in a conversation. I have a few clues, but there seems to be a deep intersection with my own nebulous worldview in how I understand it. Maybe I should begin with nihilism. You'll find a lot of definitions that say nihilism is the belief that life has no meaning or whatever. But this is only a type of nihilism called existential nihilism, which is what people usually think of when someone says they're a nihilist. Nihilism is in fact "a family of views that reject or negate certain aspects of existence." Yes, just that. No proposals of it's own. The strain of nihilism that's my concern is political nihilism: rejection and/or negation of all things political. Every institution and system is equally worthless, equally negated, without concern for revolution (that is, replacement of one thing with another). On March 5, I finished reading Blessed is the Flame: An introduction to concentration camp resistance and anarcho-nihilism by Serafinski. This is where my understanding of anarcho-nihilism mainly comes from as of writing. The author uses the phrase to "specify the particular collision of anarchist and nihilist thinking". From all that, I think anarcho-nihilism might be political nihilism from a particular critical anarchist perspective: the most radical type of post-left anarchism. Post-leftists may still believe in creating alternatives to the current order, but reject the effectiveness of traditional left-wing politics (organizations, social revolution, etc.) Anarcho-nihilists don't even want to think of alternatives—or at least not until after society is destroyed. ... ... ...That's what makes it resonate with me. I became burnt out with politics after an unproductive personal project I spent 2 years on for nothing. All dogma, dense overwritten theory, well-buried historical figures—I know them only now to be useless garbage for my time and place. These dead modes of thinking assume there's some capital-t Truth to be discovered, which will make their -ism valid for everything, everywhere, from now to forever. That's what I assumed in that project, and how childish was I! I no longer think of alternatives. Many lifestyles can work to make humans materially, socially and sustainably free. And it would be good to let others decide for themselves rather than perpetuate totalitarian thinking. I only think of what I hate, and what I'll do to free myself from it.

Have you ever looked down from an airplane? What did you see? Majesty. Great oceans. Mighty forests. Vast deserts. And concrete. Miles and miles of concrete scar tissue criss-crossing the natural world. Cities. Modern society. The great vampire sucking the world dry. It is a disease. It is a cancer, leaching beauty, virility, and life from this planet. And it must be cured! We must return to our natural selves—warriors, hunters, animals. Because if we do not, we will cease to exist. The great collapse draws near. There will be wars, and famine, and death. It will be the end of the world as we know it. But for those of us who have prepared, those of us who have trained, it will be a beginning. A rebirth. We will restore the natural order of things. We will live as nature intended us to live, and we will be better for it.