Morality

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I'm so overflowing with life that should I have to choose between ending my life once and for all, and having to live this same life — exactly the same way — again and again, for all eternity... I'd choose the latter without hesitation

The eternal recurrence of life ❤️

relationships under capitalism

“Nowadays the crudest and most evil forces, the egoism of the money-makers and the military despots, hold sway over almost everything on earth. In the hands of these despots and money-makers, the state certainly makes an attempt to organize everything anew out of itself and to bind and constrain all those mutually hostile forces: that is to say, it wants men to render it the same idolatry they formerly rendered the church. With what success? We have still to learn; we are, in any case, even now still in the ice-filled stream of the Middle Ages; it has thawed and is rushing on with devastating power. Ice-floe piles on ice-floe, all the banks have been inundated and are in danger of collapse. The revolution is absolutely unavoidable, and it will be the atomistic revolution: but what are the smallest indivisible basic constituents of human society?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Untimely Meditations (III. §4)

Re-living the entire life — even again and again — is worth it for a single great, beautiful moment

Ressentiment, the death drive, guilt etc — characterizing weakness of will — typically lead to ascetic renunciation and passive nihilism, to inaction in a sense... and that's deplorable enough...

But when they do lead to action — when they become "creative", when they become the driving factors behind movements etc — that is when the slave morality triumphs... and it's all the worse!

They cannot lead to liberation or creation, but only to destruction of everything, to destruction of life, to death and only death... not destruction for the sake of creation, as in active nihilism, but destruction for the sake of destruction...

Fascism is the clearest example of this.
But it's not only explicitly reactionary movements that exemplify this...

Every "liberation" movement which doesn't oppose the State — the greatest death machine — and worse, aims to take control of it and make it "omnipotent"; and, in general, which doesn't aim for and work for effecting the transvaluation of all values... every such movement is also an instance of the foregoing death cults.

Capital, the abstract parasite and vampire
(Mark Fisher quote)

“[H]e who really is convinced that the goal of culture is to promote the production of true human beings and nothing else, and then sees how even now, with all our expenditure and pomp of culture, the production of such human beings is hardly to be distinguished from cruelty to animals protracted into the human world, will think it very necessary finally to replace that ‘obscure impulse’ with a conscious willing. And he will think so especially for a second reason: that it shall cease to be possible for that drive which does not know its goal, that celebrated obscure impulse, to be employed for quite different objectives and directed on to paths which can never lead to the supreme goal, the production of the genius. For there exists a species of misemployed and appropriated culture — you have only to look around you! And precisely those forces at present most actively engaged in promoting culture do so for reasons they reserve to themselves and not out of pure disinterestedness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Untimely Meditations (III. §6)

“Among these forces is, first of all, the greed of the money-makers, which requires the assistance of culture and by way of thanks assists culture in return, but at the same time, of course, would like to dictate its standards and objectives. It is from this quarter that there comes that favorite proposition and chain of conclusions which goes something like this: as much knowledge and education as possible, therefore as much demand as possible, therefore as much production as possible, therefore as much happiness and profit as possible — that is the seductive formula. Education would be defined by its adherents as the insight by means of which, through demand and its satisfaction, one becomes time-bound through and through but at the same time best acquires all the ways and means of making money as easily as possible. The goal would then be to create as many current human beings as possible, in the sense in which one speaks of a coin as being current; and, according to this conception, the more of these current human beings it possesses the happier a nation will be. Thus the sole intention behind our modern educational institutions should be to assist everyone to become current to the extent that lies in his nature, to educate everyone in such a way that they can employ the degree of knowledge and learning of which they are capable for the accumulation of the greatest possible amount of happiness and profit. What is demanded here is that the individual must be able, with the aid of this general education, exactly to assess himself with regard to what he has a right to demand of life; and it is asserted, finally, that there exists a natural and necessary connection between ‘intelligence and property’, between ‘wealth and culture’, more, that this connection is a moral necessity. Here there is a hatred of any kind of education that makes one a solitary, that proposes goals that transcend money and money-making, that takes a long time; such more serious forms of education are usually disparaged as ‘refined egoism’ and as ‘immoral cultural Epicureanism’. Precisely the opposite of this is, of course, held in esteem by the morality that here counts as valid: namely, a speedy education so that one may quickly become a money-earning being, yet at the same time an education sufficiently thorough to enable one to earn a very great deal of money. A man is allowed only as much culture as it is in the interest of general money-making and world commerce he should possess, but this amount is likewise demanded of him. In short: ‘Man has a claim to earthly happiness and for that reason he needs education, but only for that reason!’”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Untimely Meditations (III. §6)

institutional violence vs revolutionary violence

“Secondly, there is the greed of the state, which likewise desires the greatest possible dissemination and universalization of culture and has in its hands the most effective instruments for satisfying this desire. Presupposing it knows itself sufficiently strong to be able, not only to unchain energies, but at the right time also to yoke them, presupposing its foundations are sufficiently broad and secure to sustain the whole educational structure, then the dissemination of education among its citizens can only be to its advantage in its competition with other states. Whenever one now speaks of the ‘cultural state’, one sees it as facing the task of releasing the spiritual energies of a generation to the extent that will serve the interests of existing institutions: but only to this extent; as a forest river is partially diverted with dams and breakwaters so as to operate a mill with the diminished driving-power thus produced — while the river's full driving-power would rather endanger the mill than operate it. This releasing of energies is at the same time, and much more, an enchaining of them. One has only to recall what Christianity has gradually become through the greed of the state. Christianity is certainly one of the purest revelations of the impulse to culture and especially of the impulse to the ever-renewed production of the saint; but since it has been employed in a hundred ways to propel the mills of state power it has gradually become sick to the very marrow, hypocritical and untruthful, and degenerated into a contradiction of its original goal. Even the most recent event in its history, the German Reformation, would have been no more than a sudden and quickly extinguished flare-up if it had not stolen fresh fuel from the fires of conflict between the states.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Untimely Meditations (III. §6)

“Egoism and its problem! The Christian gloominess in La Rochefoucauld which extracted egoism from everything and thought he had thereby reduced the value of things and of virtues! To counter that, I at first sought to prove that there could not be anything other than egoism — that in men whose ego is weak and thin the power of great love also grows weak — that the greatest lovers are so from the strength of their ego — that love is an expression of egoism, etc.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Will to Power (362)

scientific racism, sexism etc

“Thirdly, culture is promoted by all those who are conscious of possessing an ugly or boring content and want to conceal the fact with so-called ‘beautiful form’. Under the presupposition that what is inside is usually judged by what is outside, the observer is to be constrained to a false assessment of the content through externalities, through words, gestures, decoration, display, ceremoniousness. It sometimes seems to me that modern men bore one another to a boundless extent and that they finally feel the need to make themselves interesting with the aid of all the arts. They have themselves served up by their artists as sharp and pungent repasts; they soak themselves in all the spices of the Orient and the Occident, and to be sure! they now smell very interesting, smelling as they do of all the Orient and the Occident. Now they are suitably prepared for satisfying every taste; and everyone shall have something, whether his inclination be for the fresh-smelling or foul-smelling, for the sublimated or for peasant coarseness, for the Greek or the Chinese, for tragedies or for dramatized lewdness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Untimely Meditations (III. §6)

capitalist mindfulness etc

“However loudly the state may proclaim its service to culture, it furthers culture in order to further itself and cannot conceive of a goal higher than its own welfare and continued existence. What the money-makers really want when they ceaselessly demand instruction and education is in the last resort precisely money. When those who require form ascribe to themselves the actual labor on behalf of culture and opine, for instance, that all art belongs to them and must stand in the service of their requirements, what is quite clear is that by affirming culture they are merely affirming themselves: that they too are therefore still involved in a misunderstanding.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Untimely Meditations (III. §6)

"Begumpura (“land without sorrow”) is a stateless, classless, casteless society imagined by poet Guru Raidas [aka Ravidas] in his poem around 500 years ago in India. It was possibly the first imagination of an anarchist utopia in Indian literature. It became the guiding light for anti-caste intellectuals for imagining the society that they aspire to create."

https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/begumpura-the-anarchist-commune/

the micropolitical roots of fascism