Blessed is the Flame
Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism [cite:@serafinski_BlessedFlame_2016] is a 2016 book by Serafinski (pseudonym). It examines resistance within Nazi concentration camps — sabotage, revolt, escape, and refusal — and argues that these acts constitute a politics that does not depend on hope for success or belief in progress.
The book develops an anarcho-nihilist framework: resistance is not justified by its likelihood of achieving a better future but by the conditions it responds to. Serafinski draws on historical accounts of camp uprisings (Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau) and everyday acts of defiance to argue that the drive to resist domination persists even when victory is impossible. The text challenges revolutionary frameworks that require optimism about outcomes as a precondition for action.
The work has circulated in anarchist and insurrectionary milieus and contributes to debates about nihilism, hope, and political motivation within radical politics.