Is Anarcho-Primitivism the solution to our planetary woes?

 Anarcho-primitivism is an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilisation.

 According to anarcho-primitivists, the shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural subsistence gave rise to social stratification, coercion and alienation.
 
Anarcho Primitivists advocate a return to non-“civilised” ways of life through deindustrialisation, abolition of the division of labour and abandonment of large-scale technologies.

Anarcho-primitivists seek to escape domestication through achieving a feral state of being through “rewilding” and dismantling the infrastructure of civilization.

 Anarcho primitivists view language and symbolic thought as especially problematic as both separate us from direct and unmediated contact with reality.

Such anarcho-primitivists would prefer to completely eliminate language and all forms of symbolic culture, to enable humanity to finally be at one with nature.

For more on anarcho-primitivism visist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism

Comments

Dermot Kenny's picture

Considering that we must be

Considering that we must be the most over governed and docile people I doubt if Anarcho-primitivitism will be taken on here, however, the economy is heading in that general direction

Hugh's picture

I think Pol Pot was probably

I think Pol Pot was probably a very prolofic anarcho-primitivist as he lead a very effective regime of

deindustrialisation in Cambodia back in the late '70's. Not sure it's the way to go!

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