Some awesome comments from Anarchist Memes about primitivism. Someone asked: You all do understand that the 7 billion people were created through processes that destroy other life, right? It is an unsustainable number to begin with, and requires the destruction of ecosystems to keep it going. What youre saying is that human life takes priority over all other life. Industrial civilization requires that some people suffer and die so other people can live. How do you reconcile that with your anarchist principles? And someone else answered: Industrial civilization requires that some people suffer and die so other people can live. Youre conflating industrial with capitalist. To say nothing of the fact that you seem to be implying that isnt true on a MASSIVE scale in order for primitivism to work. Youre simultaneously condemning industrial (IE modern capitalist) civilization for something you dont seem to be blinking an eye at in order to make hunter-gatherer societies a thing again. With the things we know, right now, theres no reason we cant bring human society completely to a sustainable, egalitarian ecosystem that isnt focused on growth or profit and instead on mutual aid and the collective survival and thriving of both our species and the rest of the planet. Mass extinction and the subsequent abandonment of all technologies is a terrible solution to the problem of capitalism. Not that it isnt a solution: Such a society would inherently be egalitarian and sustainable, and all biological and archaeological evidence suggests that this is how we existed for most of our time on this planet. Im just saying its possibly the most reactionary solution Ive ever heard. More to the point: How do YOU reconcile the idea that a set of people requiring specific physical attributes are the only ones that get to live in the world you advocate with YOUR anarchist principles?
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:48:40 +0000
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