Revolt requires a double nihilation of both ideal and actual states

Evidence

This means that he will have had to give himself room, to withdraw in relation to it, and will have to have effected a double nihilation: on the one hand, he must posit an ideal state of affairs as a pure present nothingness; on the other hand, he must posit the actual situation as nothingness in relation to this state of affairs. He will have to conceive of a happiness attached to his class as a pure possible—that is, presently as a certain nothingness—and on the other hand, he will return to the present situation in order to illuminate it in the light of this nothingness and in order to nihilate it in turn by declaring: “I am not happy.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1068

Categorization

• DEFINE: The ‘double nihilation’ is the precise ontological mechanism by which the for-itself makes its situation actionable.
• XREF: connects to: States must engender an opposite and create an enemy. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 1046; Revolutions happen when governmental weakness unblocks pressures, not when they are blocked

Broader Connections

• States must engender an opposite and create an enemy. #expands (0.82) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1046
• Revolutions happen when governmental weakness unblocks pressures, not when they are blocked #expands (0.72)