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Resnullianism (from Old Sabamic res nullius, "a matter of none") or Stornlesism (from Hártal Stjórnarleysisstefna roughly "lack of government/control") is a political movement held by a diverse umbrella of radical ideologies and philosophies that seeks the abolition of all political authority, particularly the state in which they see as the fullest expression of human oppression. The eventual goal of resnullians is the institution of a resnullius -- a state of affairs in which human affairs are freely organized without the oversight of the government. Sometimes listed as part of the wider Syndicalist movement, much of Resnullian thought actually owes to Liberal politics.

Unlike other political movements, resnullians, despite being a far-reaching movement, has eschewed (or advertently avoided) formal organizations, some working alone or organizing in ad-hoc associations. Their scattered and usually organic activity tends to range from community work to terrorism.

Today, resnullianism is proscribed as a subversive ideology in much of Messenia, frequently subjected to persecution and censorship. However, more moderate currents of the movement, particularly the Sabamo-Cairan philosophy of Libertarianism has lent a more positive view towards resnullianism as a political ideal. The resnullian intransingence against much of the established social order has been influential in the development of other contemporary movements (such as the aforementioned Syndicalism) throughout the West.

Ideas and topics

L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers. Tel se croit le maître des autres, qui ne laisse pas d'être plus esclave qu'eux. (Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.)

— Auguste de Boulanger, Alethian-Libertarian activist, 1904

A key thing to remember in studying the resnullian movement is that it does not espouse a singular ideology or interpretation; in fact, they tolerate and acknowledge its own loose and too-often contradictory multiplicity so long as it does not deviate from the principle of freedom. Resnullians tend to profess a near-universal sense of unity between supposed "comrades", agreeing solely on a goal of a free and just world. This has been cemented and complicated further by the more recent notion of "autotheory", essentially letting the individual resnullian to set his own idea and path towards social liberation.

Most currents of Resnullianism espouse very anti-establishment sentiments and upholding a mindful, egalitarian ethics. A major point of dispute within the movement are divided along economistic lines (Free Syndicalists and Libertarians) or between strategy (Pacifists and Revolutionaries). Fundamentalism and sectarianism amongst these currents tend to be rare and such incidents are based more around power politics rather than any ideological basis.

Freedom and oppression

Main articles: Liberty, Freethought, and Social justice

The organizing principle of almost every current of Resnullian thought is the idea of liberty, or as Voltaire Delescluze have wrote; "the breaking of all chains weighing down upon the human spirit". Justification of adhering to liberty varies from current to current and some may even put it as a secondary basis for their resnullianism. In most cases, liberty is taken from an ethical perspective, the absolute ideal in which all men should have the right to live as they please. Liberty in the resnullian sense encompasses both positive and negative aspects, a state of being which is the fullest form of moral justice. Such liberty is thus deserved by every person.

The phenomenon of oppression is thus the resnullian's enemy that which must be abolished at all cost. The manifestations of oppression-- from the state, the nobility, the compact, school and argan, social mores and unfair laws--are considered injustices to the people and (in some currents) the land and the spiritual facets. The idea that some are more worthy of respect over others and man is unfit to lead his own affairs are key bases of this human injustice. It can be inferred then of the extremely egalitarian bent of the movement. The adherence to liberty and injustice extends to all sentient beings and so it reflects sharply in the cultural activity of mainline resnullians. In most cases, the artistic hedonist countercultures of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which resnullianism was a key influence of, was defined by their wild and loose social mores, particularly in the latter's calls for free love and the acceptance of open homosexuality.

Underlying these frameworks the philosophy of freethought (libre-pensée) stands as a key practice. Oppression is viewed as not only meted by people, but also by social ideas. Such philosophy encourages the freethinker to reject and ruthlessly denounce and condemn all moral authority. Some freethinkers, such as Arion de Valera, pushed it to the point of furor, writing scandalous and oftentimes controversial screeds disparaging traditional Cairo-Sirian social mores.

Struggle for the resnullius

Main article: Resnullius

L'État c'est la grande fiction à travers laquelle tout le monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde. (The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.)

— Claude Saint-Valentin, Seranian Insurrectionary, 1887

The ideal goal of the resnullian movements, the res nullius, throws away every perceived coneptions regarding traditional society. Modern adherents, particularly of the more radical and insurrectionary bent, view the world (and in turn, the cosmos) as a naturally chaotic and temporal existence. Thus, resnullianism can be interpreted as the embrace of sentient beings towards the "true" state of nature (existential nihilism/agnosticism). In accordance to such nature, the resnullius does not have a set defined authority. There are no borders, leaders, states, enforced culture, rigid schedule, singular courts, ubiquitous customs and dominant economic systems. Even for more Syndicalist or Syndicalist-sympathetic Resnullians, the ideal society is self-perpetuating.

The firm advocacy of abolishing an oppressive world down to the mundane aspects of everyday life has led to the common expression of la liberté c'est la vie! ("Freedom is Life!"). The lack of ability for the human spirit to act for himself—brought by social and economic conditions—is equated to existential death. For most Resnullians, true life is defined by a continuous experience of freedom, unbound by strict social mores, material necessity and grand ideals such as morality. In the resnullius, man, free to act and grow as he can become, becomes merged with everything around him. An eventual harmony.

Politically and economically, the notion of federation is highlighted. Mainstream (non-philosophical) Resnullians believe that in discarding the state and other overarching systems of oppression, the natural tendency of people is to willingly congregate for their common welfare. In this manner, the federation is recontextualized to invididuals and social groups: people self govern under a basis of common agreement and recognition of the common good.

Diversity of tactic

Throughout the various currents of the movement there also include equally various ideas on how the resnullius could be achieved. For much of its history, Resnullians argued that struggle against all authority, most importantly the state, is a step towards that direction, either through violent struggle or active subversion. Unlike the revolutionary collectivists, in which the state is modified to accomodate a different side of the population, almost everyone in the wider movement is in agreement that such attempts at reform are only windows to other kinds of dominating power. Resnullians who support physical force agree that forceful action against the state is insurrection, a total opposition and resistance to the social order toowards its eventual destruction. Insurrection seeks to expand and/or preserve liberty while ensuring its survival in the long term. To the resnullian, revolt is merely a war waged by would-be oppressors.

The common modern interpretation is that the resnullius is not a global future in which reality will have to adjust itself, but an immediate state of affairs in which one must actively create and defend from the enemies of liberty ("demand this future not, found it ourselves, for ourselves, today!"). With the liberty of everyone in the resnullius, anyone can forge their own path in respect of each other, free to accord on which the society defines itself, a spontaneous order. The immediate and almost temporal nature of the modern resnullius is considered a "counter-society" against the imposing state. Both modern pacifist and insurrectionary currents consider the "counter-society" as a viable strategy in both the long and short term--liberty is experienced, and treasured, and thus the struggle for it becomes more valuable.

History

Enginn maður, sama hversu hárfætt, getur réttlætið aðra til vilja hans. (No man, no matter how high-born, may rightfully subordinate another to his will.)

— Geysur Vinstri, leader of the Jafnar, "the first resnullians"

Precedents in history

Major political philosophers throughout the civilised world during the Enlightenment and Radiance have posited that the pre-civilised world was essentially a resnullian one. This sentiment has been echoed as well by some Radicalist and Syndicalist thinkers such as Pierre Dissault and Léonie-Sylvie Bassorelle. However, they thought of such notions in a denigrating light, seeing the development of organized civilisations as a positive development.

• Jafnar
• Other historical anti-authoritarian movements

Rise of Libertarianism

Libertarianism is a philosophy intimately tied with the Cairan Reformation and its political developments in Savam, which also gave birth to the more widespread ideology of Liberalism. Primitive Libertarianism was in the late 18^th century, broadly, a more radical version of the liberal ideas developed by Dissault (Dissault himself could be considered a primitive libertarian during his later life as he advocated for full respopulus).

Classical Libertarianism emerged in the first half of the 19^th century as the first major libertarian movement. From primitive libertarianism it continued to develop themes of political freedom (initiating the later consequentialist basis of libertarianism) but also refocused on economic freedom aspects, which were important within more mainstream liberal ideology as well. Classical libertarians went further than classical liberals, who were mostly concerned with the economic freedom of the nascent bourgeoisie versus that of the nobility, and advocated for XXX, which considers that economic value derived from natural resources and the commons should belong equally to all, and that state revenue should exclusively stem from a land value tax.

In parallel, consequentialist thought within the cairan sphere led to a focus on Utilitarianism; the maximalisation of utility as a measure of societal and individual satisfaction or happiness. Libertiarians picked up this approach and chose "liberty" as the utility to be maximised. Utilitarianism had a varied level of popularity within the classical libertarian movement, with some rejecting it outright; those libertarians that embraced Utilitarian approaches are now referred to as the Uti-libertarianism movement. Uti-libertians were mostly a big tent movement, less focused on specific forms of the socio-economic system as compared to other libertarians (or liberals for that matter).

While Uti-libertarianism was influenced by early Utilitarianism, the influence went the other way too and Uti-libertarianism played a fundamental role in the early development of Utilitarian philosophy and utility determination theory in Savam, leading it to have a lasting influence on later political movement like modern Radicalism.

Libertarian thought underwent its first major "reaction" in the mid-to-late 19^th century as part of the wider countercultural political reaction against the inequalities introduced by industrialisation and liberalism in Messenia. Libertarians opposed the economic monopolies enjoyed by the nobility that emerged out of liberal laissez-faire, a rejection they shared with Radicals, and argued for an actually free market where economic opportunity was guaranteed for all by non-state means (as opposed to statist radicalism). Their advocacy for "real" free market and "real" laissez-faire led them to become referred to as Alethic Libertarians.

For a People's Justice

Major figures within the Resnullian movement with Syndicalism in a conference and the birth of Free Syndicalism (i.e anarcho-socialism/council-communism). The meeting did not end well even with a synthesis, however

Possibilities in the New World

Experiments in the Seranias and interaction with Ascesians, libertarians given assurance, emboldened with Ascesian politics, these experiments becomes the basis for organizing and other theory in the long-war era millieu. Revolutionary shenanigans ensue.

• Some communities in Savamese Serania, most are destroyed as part of the repression of the (mostly collectivist) Felician Insurgency

Liberal-tarianism and the Long War

Ancaps enter the scene, the INSURRECTIONIST ARMY OF WHATEVERTHEFUCK resists the shit out of both savam and odann in the gaste war

Modern history

Seranian ZADs!!!! Fuck the world!!! ACAB!!! Anti-Vaestism!!!

Criticism and persecution

The most common criticism hurled at towards the idea of resnullius itself is its utopian character...