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Tag Archives: nihilism
Anarchy: Civil or Subversive?
This zine critically examines “anarcho-liberalism”, highlighting the civilized formations of leftist anarchism as non-threatening to the established order, and advocates for subversive insurrection beyond leftism. Text from the zine: “In this pamphlet I wrote about the fundamental divide between those … Continue reading
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An Obituary for Identity Politics
From back cover: “Rather than taking aim at identity itself and the apparatus maintaining this paradigm, energy is spent tearing one another down, ignoring the complexity of individual uniqueness, and playing the State’s role of defining each other based on … Continue reading
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Armed Joy
Text from back cover: “DO IT YOURSELF Don’t break up the global aspect of play by reducing it to roles. Defend your right to enjoy life. Obstruct capital’s death project. The latter can only enter the world of creativity and … Continue reading
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Beyond Right and Wrong (Conspiracy of Cells of Fire)
Text from the zine: “We want to create the possibilities of acting with people who feel stifled in the social cages imposed on them by authority and want to rebel… Our joy is great in any such new meeting with … Continue reading
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Becoming Animal: My Feral Individualism
From back cover: “Caught in this schismatic abyss, I find myself compelled towards a practice of individualism. Why individualism, rather than collectivism? My body is often found within the machinery of Leviathan which is that collective known as society. The … Continue reading
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Beyond the “Movement” – Anarchy!
Text from back cover: “The collectivist message of The Coming Insurrection has little in common with insurrectional anarchy: the revolutionary theory flowing from the individual’s passionate uprising to appropriate the fullness of life for themselves, attacking all that controls and … Continue reading
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Communization: The Senile Decay of Anarchy by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire Imprisoned Members
Text from back cover: “Anarchy, however, demands the organization of the new anarchist urban guerrilla, if we don’t want it to degenerate into a meaningless poetic chatter, doomed to be followed by the alternative integration in the system. Concepts that … Continue reading
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Dangerous Foundations: An Argument Against the “Identity” in Identity Politics
A well-written, thorough critique of identity and a proposal for its total abandonment. Dangerous Foundations Anti-Identity pdf
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Decomposing the Masses: Towards Armed Individuality
From back cover: ““The strategy of creating a mass society or system of order is a strategy of discouraging individuality, chaos, and uniqueness. This strategy includes presenting a one-dimensional view of individualism that is defined by capitalism. But for individualism … Continue reading
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Descending into Madness: An Anarchist-Nihilist Diary of Anti-Psychiatry
From back cover: “Like all governments, presidents, and authority, psychiatry never gave me freedom. Assigned psychiatric labels didn’t help me – they only filled me with an internalized sense of victimhood and inferiority. Medication didn’t ‘cure’ or ‘fix’ me – … Continue reading
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Desire Armed: Anarchy and the Creative Impulse
Text from back cover: “My freedom is not a promise for the future, but a way to continuously confront the world where I exist now, taking possession of my life with all my might, in conflict with everything that stands … Continue reading
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Drawing First Blood
From back cover: “Every attempt to free humanity en masse is bound to fail because collective self-determination is a contradiction in terms. There is no such thing as the common good, for there is no good that is common to … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchist-nihilism, egosim, Enemies of Society: An Anthology of Individualist and Egoist Thought, individualism, individualist anarchy, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism
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Essentialism and The Problem of Identity Politics
Text from the zine: “Essentialism is the idea that there exists some detectible and objective core quality of particular groups of people that is inherent, eternal, and unalterable; groupings can be categorized according to these qualities of essence, which are … Continue reading
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Fragment: Violence
From back cover: “Outside of the UK many of the comrades have a much closer relationship to “violence” and “criminality” through bank robberies, organising attacks, fierce demos, stealing, fraud, counterfeiting etc. and added to that possibility the experience of clandestinity … Continue reading
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From Identity to Individuality: A Nihilist’s History in Leftism
From back cover: “Rather than adhering to these strict rules, we felt free to communicate our individual desires… …My friends of all different socially constructed identities – by race, gender, sex, etc – could behave as they wished, without being … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-identity, call-out culture, identity politics, leftism, liberalism, nihilism, post-left individualism, social justice
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I Am Also A Nihilist
Text from back cover: “I don’t care whether it is Nordic or Oriental, nor whether or not is has a historical, political, practical tradition, or a theoretical, philosophical, spiritual, intellectual one. I call myself a nihilist because I know that … Continue reading
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In Praise of Chaos
From back cover: Anarchists are opposed to authority both from below and from above. They do not demand power for the masses, but seek to destroy all power and to decompose these masses into individuals who are masters of their … Continue reading
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Insurrection Anarchist Magazine Issue #4
An insurrectionary anarchist periodical which provides essays and clandestine actions, critical of leftism and formal organizing. Insurrection Anarchist Magazine pdf
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Insurgent Ferocity: The Playful Violence of Rebellion
From back cover: “Rebellion is the aggressive, dangerous, playful attack by freespirited individuals against society. Refusing a system of violence, refusing an organized, militarized form of armed struggle, allows the violence of insurgents to retain a high level of invisibility. … Continue reading
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Leftism 101
This zine collects two excellent essays by Lawrence Jarach: “Leftism 101” from Back to Basics: The Problem of the Left put out by the Green Anarchy collective and “Anarchists, Don’t let the Left(overs) Ruin your Appetite” from Anarchy: A Journal … Continue reading
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Let’s Become Dangerous: For the Diffusion of the Black International by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire
Text from the zine: “No, our burned banks are not a way of protest or a token of friendship and solidarity with the “poor person” who does nothing and sits on his couch. It is a way to express our … Continue reading
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Liberation, Not Organization
From back cover: “I desire liberation , not organization. While most leftists would claim that the two go hand-in-hand , or at least that the second is necessary to achieve the first ( and for some the second might even … Continue reading
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Lone Wolves Are Not Alone
From back cover: “It is all those conspiratorial anarchists illegalists who made the anarchist insurrection their only home land. It is those who chose to stay away from the glory of the dead ideologies and bureaucracy of the social anarchism … Continue reading
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Max Stirner, Individualist Anarchy, And a Critical Look at Egoist Communism
From back cover: “I have no need for the herd philosophy of the self-deceiving and self-sacrificing fantasy of communization and its inner leftism. I am opposed to its collectivist conformist cult of the worker, which dissolves the individual into the … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-left anarchy, communization, egoist communism, individualist anarchy, nihilism, Renzo Conners
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Manifesto Against Schools by Armeanio Lewis
From back cover: “After being expelled I rushed home to write this essay. I didn’t think, I just wrote. I wrote how I was feeling, what I was thinking. I was nothing but a pure-being of anger and hatred. Arguably, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-school, Armeanio Lewis, direct action, individualism, insurrection, nihilism, post-left anarchy, youth liberation
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Mapping the Fire: International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire
Text from the zine: “The following texts were translated and edited by the imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and by the comrades of Contra Info. We warmly thank them therefore, as well as the comrades A,M … Continue reading
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My Iconoclastic Individualism
From back cover: “But when we are condemned to hear socialists more or less theorizing in order to impudently and ignorantly state that there is no incompatibility between Individualist and collectivist ideas…when we hear someone try to make an invincible … Continue reading
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Negate Politics, Affirm Cuteness
A zine against “growing up”, politics and workerism. Negate Politics pdf
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Never Work!
Text from back cover: “When Guy Debord of the Situationist International graffi tied the slogan “Never Work!” onto the walls of a Parisian street in 1953, he struck a blow in solidarity with the radical current of left communism which … Continue reading
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No Hope, No Future: Let the Adventures Begin!
From back cover: “But this reality, however dismal, motivates my desire to make my life, through fierce revolt, as joyful and fulfilling as possible! My hopelessness does not paralyze me with fear or depression; I celebrate it with hysterical laughter … Continue reading
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Nihilist Anarchy, Insurrection, & Anti-Civilization
Text from back cover: “The total liberation that I am speaking about could be nothing less than aggressive and in total conflict with the existent. The earth and the nonhuman animals as well as the human animals are parts of … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, animal liberation, anti-civ, direct action, earth liberation, eco-defense, green anarchy, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, Social War, technological industrial complex, total liberation
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Off The Leash
Text from back cover: “Feeling the need for revolt in their bodies, those of an individualist nihilistic bent never needed to justify their insurrection in terms of ‘the Will of the People’, ‘History’ or ‘Justice’; and have always been quite … Continue reading
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On the poverty of “Joyful Militancy”
From back cover: ““Their notion of “troubled joy” that they implicitly allude to in such roundabout ways, comes off sounding somewhat like a ruined orgasm (but not in a kinky way), cut short by thoughts of white guilt and internalized … Continue reading
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Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind
Text from back cover: “Post-left anarchists reject all ideologies in favor of the individual and communal construction of self-theory. Individual self-theory is theory in which the integral individual in context (in all her or his relationships, with all her or … Continue reading
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Post-Left Anarchy (Short Intro)
Text from the zine: “Why has there been such a long history of conflict and enmity between anarchists and the left? It is because there are two fundamentally different visions of social change embodied in the range of their respective … Continue reading
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Prison Break: An Anarchist Blueprint for Hedonism
From back cover: “Love and support to those who dropped out of school and faced life with nothing more than a lockpick set and a backpack. Love and support to those who riot within the prisons of asylums and “correctional” … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-civ, Evasion, Flower Bomb, green anarchy, individualism, individualist anarchy, lifestylism, nihilism, post-left anarchy
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Pure Black: An Emerging Consensus Among Some Comrades?
“The term “black” anarchist has been thrown around recently in a number of international milieux and journals. Indeed during the last few years of my travels throughout North and South America and Europe I have noted repeated attempts to define, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-left anarchy, black anarchy, illegalism, individualist anarchy, nihilism, Paul Z. Simons, post-left anarchy
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Reclaim Your Mind
Text from back cover: “As far as we know, we only have one life on this planet. Why should we waste it trying to adapt ourselves to the always more demanding expectations of this insane society when there is so … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti-essentialism, anti-medication, anti-politics, anti-psychiatry, anti-work, anti-workerism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, medication, mental health, nihilism, pharmaceutical industrial complex, play, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, psychiatry, Social War
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Sabotage As One of the Fine Arts
Text from back cover: “Sabotage is thus an action that serves as a propellant against the unreality that oppresses us. A practice that has not gone unnoticed by ideological recuperation, which has transformed it into “terrorism” (the professionalization of sabotage … Continue reading
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Safety is an Illusion: Reflections on Accountability
Text from back cover: “People in relation to each other create healthy or unhealthy exchanges. There is no absolute for “fucked up,” “healed,” or “safe” it changes with time, life circumstance, and each new love affair. It is with … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability process, anti- identity politics, call-out culture, Dangerous Spaces, nihilism, post-leftism, relationships, safe spaces
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