Political Nihilism Or Radical Skepticism

Nihilism is not pessimism or radical skepticism. It would not be entirely to correct to state that a nihilist believes in nothing either. "Nihilism" is based off of the Latin word, nihil, which means “nothing”, which means “not anything” or “that which does not exist”. True nihilism comes down to the belief that all and any kinds of values are both baseless and useless and that nothing can be known or fully communicated. It denounces all certainty and abstract, human constructs. Many nihilists have no loyalties and no direct purpose.
Nihilism, like most philosophies, has many sects. There are many different kinds and it can therefore be understood in several different ways. Political Nihilism: the belief that it is imperatively necessary

This is often what leads to its misled association or mistakenness for atheism and radical skepticism. The earliest philosophical belief associated with what can be characterized as a nihilistic position is that of Skepticism. Skeptics denied the possibility of certainty. They labeled traditional truths as unjustifiable and invalid. Extreme skepticism is tied to epistemological nihilism, which adopts the perspective that all knowledge should be accepted a possibly, or probably, untrue or false. This form of nihilism is in turn, identified with postmodern anti foundationalism. Many well-known nihilists are philosophers, though few well known philosophers would claim to be nihilists. Max Stirner (1806-1856) is often placed among the first philosophical nihilists. He attacked systematic philosophy, denied of absolutes, and rejected abstract concepts of any kind such as morality, good, evil, love, and hate. To him, individual freedom, and achieving it, is the only law. So, he therefore believed that the state must be destroyed because it necessarily impedes

By the late 20th century, "nihilism" had assumed two polar classifications, neither of which are true to its original form. On one hand, "nihilist" describes the postmodern person, characterized by a dehumanized conformity, alienation, indifference, hedonistic, and narcissistic. Cynicism has experienced exponential growth in the western world throughout the last half a century. People became more and more commonly attracted to the idea of nihilism. Because if nothing matters, and everything is relative, why not do what you want, right? The truth is that although “nihilism” is a common theme in the popular culture of youth today, it is almost always misinterpreted, specifically by those trying to adopt the concept. Most young people who spread the idea of nihilism do not understand it. They simply find it attractive for its association with apathy, hedonism, and anarchy, none of which are part of its base