5/24/2023 0 Comments Into the Gray by Margaret Killjoy![]() ![]() Instead, self-defeating and remarkably sectarian missives are the norm. Well-reasoned critiques of primitivism exist, but they are rarely distributed. these people simply never existed, if one is to infer from Brian’s piece. The individualists, the anarchists-without-adjectives, the mutualists. He argues that primitivists are stuck in an illusory past that cannot be supported by evidence, yet never acknowledges his complicity in the same behavior here is a man arguing that anarchism has always been about worker control and communistic ideas, completely ignoring the heterogeneous past and present of anarchism. But the anarchism he promotes is rather clearly a simplistic and “classical” one, a red anarchism that argues for worker control of a stateless society. The core of his argument is that primitivism is authoritarian and therefore irreconcilable with anarchism. But his arguments are mired in absurdities: he mocks primitivists as hypocrites for engaging in technological practices while ignoring the fact that nearly every anarchist of any stripe in capitalist and statist society is not living as she or he preaches. He makes references to how “nfortunately for anarchists, plunging into the primitivist miasma has become necessary,” openly condescending to engage the primitivists at all. Much can be inferred from his tone, which is openly mocking. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his 2003 polemic Anarchism versus Primitivism, Brian Oliver Sheppard makes the case that primitivism is inherently in contradiction with anarchism. ![]()
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