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"Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness."
- Albert Camus, The Rebel
- Anonymous, Desert
"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool that takes the controls ... Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."
- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
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Beliefs
Civics and Organization
I am an anarchist. For me, anarchy is neither a doctrine, ideal or lifestyle, but rather a process, a mode of emancipation that is realized through the individual's acceptance of and defiance towards the absurdity of life and maintained through the "atheization" of its own (anarchist) politics, the rejection of their sacred and messianic elements. It is the rejection of class, capital, government and all other oppressive structures of the modern world. Moreso, I am a synthesis anarchist, meaning I oppose tight organization and support a diversified anarchist movement, in order to preserve individual autonomy and self-government, and to move as far away as possible from hierarchic systems. Contrary to many modern anarchists, I don't believe democracy, if completely direct, to be authoritarian and strongly advocate for communes and collectives within the anarchist movement to be loosely democratically organized (similarly to situationist councils for generalized self-management).
Economics
I am anti-commodity (de-commodification of products, abolition of the value form) and anti-work (work as play, rejection of the work ethic), and support economics based on mutual aid, the reform of economic "norms" to progress past conventional economy (gift economics, library economics etc.), and in extention the replacement of capitalist social relations with non-capitalist (communist) ones, organic community "planning" ( "a natural and evolving process of organizing and making decisions within a community context") and economic flexibility and experimentation in different autonomous collectives and communities. I am also sympathetic towards (although not an advocate of) more classical, fixed forms of "anti-authoritarian" economics (such as mutualism, traditional libertarian communism, whatever this is etc.).
Philosophy and Society
Philosophically, I think I align most with optimistic nihilism or absurdism. In the way I perceive it, life is irrational and has no inherent meaning, but I find that to be a positive observation, since accepting it can encourage the individual to rebel against its absurdity and seek happiness in chasing their desires. I also believe that the human experience and, in extension, "reality", is subjective and unique to each individual, and agree with the constructivist notion that knowledge is constructed through experience and social discourse, as opposed to passively perceived, and that every human's behavior is shaped by their environment. I am neither a collectivist nor an individualist, as I believe there is no real distinction between the two, since society is itself a collection of individuals. I consider myself socially progressive, although I am strongly critical of the willingness of modern progressivism to cooperate with soulless corporations that identify with social issues to generate profit, as well as its hypocritical support for several "progressive" bourgeois institutions. I am for complete individual freedom and the de-consecration of all social values. I believe that holding any idea or value sacred, be it of religious, political, social or any other nature, corrupts it, and therefore that tradition, as all things, is harmless only until when it is (consciously) voluntary.
Environment and Technology
I am a staunch environmentalist and a firm believer in social ecology, the idea that ecological problems are social problems, and that the harmful machinery of the state, capitalism and mass industry are primarily at fault for the current environmental crisis. Ideally, I would be in favor of a solarpunk-style society where technology and environment perfectly coalesce, but seeing as that is an impossible goal, I am supportive of an outlook similar to that of the post-civilization movement, based on the belief that civilization, the modern world's organizational structures and approach to culture, is unsustainable, and that we should move past it, not revert it.
Praxis
I believe reform can accomplish very little in terms of altering the status quo. Instead, I would propose a form of insurrection focused on decentralized attempts of land accumulation in the form of squats, loosely, informally organized communes and rural and urban autonomous zones, akin to autonomism, accompanied by general acts of civil disobedience. I am not positive that a large scale anarchist society can be achieved in the present day, but such a revolt will allow for the people within these zones to live and work as they please.
Influences
Individuals
Lao Tzu (6th-7th century BCE)
Aristippus (435-356 BCE)
Diogenes (412-323 BCE)
François-Noël Babeuf (1760-1797)
Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921)
Errico Malatesta (1853-1932)
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912)
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919)
Volin (1882-1945)
Nestor Makhno (1888-1934)
Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936)
Aris Velouchiotis (1905-1945)
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
Antonio Negri (1933-2023)
Giannis Mpanias (1939-2012)
Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (1957-)
David Graeber (1961-2020)
Movements
Paris Commune (1871-1871)
Morelos Commune (1913-1917)
Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (1918-1921)
Kronstadt Rebellion (1921-1921)
Korean People’s Association in Manchuria (1929-1931)
Revolutionary Catalonia (1936-1937)
Zapatista Army of National Liberation (1994-)
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (2013-)
Theory
Read
- Anonymous - Desert
- Murray Bookchin - The Ecology of Freedom
- Murray Bookchin, Janet Biehl - The Politics of Social Ecology
- Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
- Albert Camus - The Rebel
- David Graeber - Are You An Anarchist?
- Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread
- Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels - Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Abdullah Ocalan - Democratic Confederalism
- Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness - Post-Civ!
- Lao Tzu - Tao Te Qing
- Meadow Vitale - Bright Melancholia
- Volin - Synthesis (Anarchist)
- Volin - The Unknown Revolution
Reading
Want to Read
- Georges Bataille - The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy
- Mikhail Bakunin - God and the State
- Mikhail Bakunin - Statism and Anarchy
- Hakim Bey - Temporary Autonomous Zones
- Murray Bookchin - Post Scarcity Anarchism
- Bob Black - The Abolition of Work
- Alfredo Bonnano - Armed Joy
- Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle
- For Ourselves - The Right to Be Greedy
- Raoul Vaneigem - The Revolution of Everyday Life
- Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- Emma Goldman - Anarchism and Other Essays
- Emma Goldman - Living My Life
- Evan Jack - A Farewell to Post Left Anarchy
- Ted Kaczynski - Industrial Society and its Future
- Peter Kropotkin - Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
- Jason McQuinn - Against Organizationalism
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon - What is Property?
- Max Stirner - The Ego and Its Own
Recommendations
Aesthetics
Miscellaneous
Journey
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Critiques
Brazilian Liberalism - Typical liberal. Nationalism and the borderline surveillance state you advocate makes it way worse too. Not good.
Romantic Egoism - Insurrection, anarchy and individualism are great. Romanticism is cool, and so are anti-capitalist markets. Bourgeois class denial? What?
Neocarlism - Fascist detected opinion rejected. Syndicalism is okay, Ark is a good game.
Hysteria Thought - Anarcho-capitalism on LSD. Anarchy and individualism are great. Capitalism is not, although it's cool you are positive towards a gift economy, and I am confused about the anti-environmentalism. Your art is also fucking amazing.
Theoanarchism - Anarchy and queer liberation are great, panarchy is interesting. I don't like the death obsession. I really don't like the raging racism, and that's an understatement.
Radenism - Nationalist, conservative, quasi-fascist authoritarian monarchist. No.
Dokevism - Collectivist economics and progressivism are cool, and so is indigenism. Reformism is ineffective, Capitalism sucks (the georgism makes it slightly better) and we differ greatly on the civic axis. You seem well-intentioned, I suggest you read a bit of anarchist theory.
Lehianism - Authoritarian, ultramilitaristic Zionist and an avid supporter of ethnic cleansing (it's literally the first thing mentioned in your page). There is pretty much nothing I agree with here (which is not surprising, considering you believe, and I quote, "all anarchists are antisemites").
Post-Jefbolism - Anarchism and communism are great, egoism is kinda cool, post-structuralism and accelerationism I don't know enough about. That wall of text on your page is cool as fuck.
Proletariat Builderism - Anti economics? Good. Autonomism? Great. A gift economy and the synthesis of individual and collective? Fucking amazing. Extreme cultural reactionarism? What the fuck. If you were to just drop the racism (I don't think that's too much to ask for) this would be a great ideology.
Lankajori Thought - Conservatism, capitalism and anti-democracy are not so great. Your civics are good, environmentalism too.
Nuriskianism - I don't understand. I genuinely don't.
Yoda8soup Thought - Socially and economically fantastic, and environmentalism is great too. Our civics differ significantly but our values very much align, and I love your philosophical influences as well. Other than that, you were one of my first friends on the wiki, have influenced me very much in the past, and are terribly nice!
Mindform Anarchism - Individualism, anarchy and anti-capitalism are fantastic and frontierism is very interesting. I also like your synthesis of progress and tradition. Post-humanism is not exactly ideal for me. Overall great.
Resnaisisme - Race anarchism? What? Civics are good, economics are okay, socially fucking horrible. Why do you deny being a reactionary?
Sapismo - Liberal capitalist. Ecology is cool.
N.Cortexism - Fake "progressive", neoliberal imperialist cop nut and genocide supporter. In short, no. The Killer Kitty alt invasion will not stand.
Great British New Left - The main thing we disagree on is civics and praxis. I believe the (albeit socialist) state remains a hierarchy to abolish and though I find both electoralism and revolution to be ineffective or idealistic means of bringing about change, I appreciate your devotion to them. Your market socialism sounds nice, your situationism is respectable, and overall you seem very intelligent, collected and well-intentioned. I haven't gotten to read Fisher yet, which I regret. If only all left-reformists were like you and Yoda and not self-denying liberals.
Bandicootism - Libleft fascism, therefore not libleft. To quote Bak Bax, "Well, KK ruined Cartoon Network for me and it also ruined Crash Bandicoot for me. All that's left is for KK to make an alt called "Crash Bandicootism". Please, Administrators, stop KK".
Baxism - I'm not a fan of eugenics or your authoritarian directed socialist transitional state. Councils are fine, and I like that your end goal is anarchy. I don't think nationalism is liberatory. Other than that, I really like your philosophy and social views, and it's great that you've become more democratic.
Luisism - Nationalist, authoritarian, reactionary and theocratic. We have no beliefs in common. Distributism is ok.
Carcosan Communism - I agree, mostly, with your goals and beliefs. I like insurrection, communism, anarchy, surrealism, destruction of technocapital and so forth. I like communization, though I disagree with some aspects of it (mainly the rejection of autonomous zones and the Marx fetishization).
Haunted Mound Hauntology - Love the anarchy, communism, absurdism, anti-colonialism and surrealism. Way too philosophical now for me to even comprehend, but I like what I see. Your writings are also great, and your ideology has previously been very influential to me. Cool name too.
Marijuanarchy - I like your influences and post-anarchism (although it differs from my perception of anarchy), radical environmentalism, insurrection, TAZ and generally your praxis is also great. You introduced me to post-civ, which is cool, and I'm not exactly a big fan of barter, though it is, I guess, an "anarchic" mode of trade.
Dankeism - Center left demsoc. Aside from obvious disagreements (the state, praxis) you seem well-intentioned. You should read into anarchism.
HelloThere314ism - Anarchy, progress, insurrection and communism (actual communism) are fantastic. I'm not an egoist, but the rest I pretty much completely agree with. I hope your music taste has stayed the same.
Venatrixism - We almost perfectly align in regards to civics and economics, and I borrowed a lot from you in regards to the latter. I also like individualism and your philosophy (though I am skeptical of nihilism and sadism). Otherwise just your average communizer, and overall great.
Hyperfascism - Fascist. Hyper one, too. I disagree boldly with everything on your page, except maybe your appeal to non-Marxist socialism.
Self Inserts - Literal Fanfiction | |
Auth Left | Aldathism • Alstūdism • National Wodenism • Baxism • Neocarlism • MugiKotobuki8814ism • Scorpism • BetterCallSneedism • National-Communitarian Theory • Imperial Socialism |
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Auth Unity | Aslanism • Evenoskyism • Caesarism • Matteo Thought • Nickfuentesfan Thought • Revolutionary Monarchism • Ziółkowskiizm • G-Man Toiletism |
Auth Right | Confederate Crusaderism • Isangtaoism • Tedcruzfan Thought • Second Anidiotoncrack Thought |
Left | Dankeism |
Center | SajZeal Model • NeoSajism • DDD Thought • Brazilian Liberalism |
Right | Quarkism |
Lib Left | Temujin Leeism • Kropotkinian Mutualism • Venatrixism • Neosyndicalism • Generouschalk0 thought • Rocksism • Radical Frisianism • Eleutherianism |
Lib Unity | Thompsonian Anarchism • Phill Tchaikovskism • Zelligism |
LibRight | TIIKKETMASTER thought • 2x2Master Thought |
Non Quadrant | Moxogenism |
Opposite Unity | |
Former Self-Inserts | Borker Thought • • Epoch Neo-Marxism |
Jokes | Revanchismo Panespañol • Eknadism • CubanCatholicFalangism |
Cultural Left - Civil Rights | |
Center-Left | New Deal Liberalism |
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Main | Progressivism • Ultraprogressivism |
Far-Left | Jacobinism • FreePCB Server Discord Thought • Ultimate Ideal • State Liberalism |
Self-Insert | Baxism • Schumacherianism • Rocksism |
Environmentalists - Green hills and blue sky | |
Moderate / Productive | Eco-Transhumanism |
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Main | Environmentalism • Eco-Capitalism • Eco-Socialism • Eco-Anarchism • Eco-Conservatism • Green Liberalism • Green Libertarianism • Eco-Nationalism |
Radical | Eco-Fascism • Radical Environmentalism |
Self-Inserts |
Democratic ideologies - Remember to vote! | |
Main | Democracy • Demarchy • Athenian Democracy |
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Regional | |
Representative | Republicanism • Presidentalism |
Semi-Direct | |
Direct | |
Authoritarian | Illiberal Democracy |
Ochlocratic | Ochlocracy |
Self-Insert | Evenoskyism • Revolutionary Monarchism • Baxism |
Feminists - Fighting sexism | |
Main | Liberal Feminism • Conservative Feminism • Feminism • Marxist Feminism • Anarcha-Feminism • Ecofeminism • Libertarian Feminism • Pacifist Feminism |
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Related / Concepts | Radical Feminism • National Feminism • CyberFeminism • Religious Feminism • Maternalism |
Self-Inserts | Quarkism • Schumacherianism |
Don't worry if it takes time for me to add you, I'm probably either lazy or making significant changes to my page. I will soon.