Anti-civ on its own is simply the critique of civilisation. I find the importance lay in ones solution, I prefer post-civ whereas what you’re describing to me sounds more like an anprim approach.
God damn, being a tankie who thinks individualists doesn’t value community and relationships. Cliche understanding, ML. Go read some anarchist theory, you obviously know nothing about it. Probably think egoism is like right-libertarianism as well.
Cool, so you’ve read the basic introductory stuff. Now stop doing the tankie thing of only reading ancient theory and treating it as dogmatic, and look into the modern evolutions. Go read some zines and other publications and understand the zeitgeist. You won’t find deep understanding in 1 or 2 large tomes but in millions of competing and evolving short texts from people with different lived experiences, or form your own belief for a better world and argue for it; be another voice shouting in the chaos of growth.
Because you larp about revolution that will never come. Anarchists recognise that rather than sit on our arses pretending that one day we will all rise up in revolt and until than we should sit back and do absolutely nothing to build the new world or fight, that we can actively create mutual-aid and fight today. And guess what, if the fucking heavens part and the mass revolution starts, we can still join in so it’s not like anything has been lost by us being proactive.
The focus on the individual is in relation to individual actions and ethics. A small group or cell is formidable and very real threat to governments, revolutionary book clubs are not.
We likewise don’t want to throw any individual into the grinder of the system because they didn’t ‘fit in’ as we’ve seen places like the USSR, China, and yes even Cuba (up until recently) do to it’s LGBT peoples and other innocent people. Ethics and morals are up to us to judge, not a state or society as a whole.
That’s what individualism is, it does not mean we hate working together or hate community. That’s tankie propaganda.
Yes, I do a lot in my local community and aid-groups.
egoism and other definitely real ideologies
People today make memes about Stirner’s philosophy thinking he was some ultra individualist when in reality many of his positions were basic socialism of the time (he even called himself a socialist) and the centerpoint of his theory is that the “self” does not exist (everything flows from the “creative nothing”, a concept closer to daoism than anarchism).
And though he was an anarchist in the sense that he wanted a statwless society, he lived in a time before any successful socialist revolutions, meaning his opinions on the matter are no different from Newton’s opinions on the wave/particle nature of light.
aw but I like projecting whatever ridiculous self serving garbage I like onto Stirner.
Hey, Stirner was a real guy. Engels said he definitely met him once.
Its real if I say it is
“I’m an egoist and that’s totally different than libertarianism”
I’ll be honest, it is nothing like libertatianism. Stirner was a socialist and called himself a socialist. Egoism (very bad translation of the german concept) isn’t even a political program, it’s a philosophy like materialism is a philosophy.