Anti-civ on its own is simply the critique of civilisation. I find the importance lay in ones solution, I prefer post-civ whereas what you’re describing to me sounds more like an anprim approach.
God damn, being a tankie who thinks individualists doesn’t value community and relationships. Cliche understanding, ML. Go read some anarchist theory, you obviously know nothing about it. Probably think egoism is like right-libertarianism as well.
Cool, so you’ve read the basic introductory stuff. Now stop doing the tankie thing of only reading ancient theory and treating it as dogmatic, and look into the modern evolutions. Go read some zines and other publications and understand the zeitgeist. You won’t find deep understanding in 1 or 2 large tomes but in millions of competing and evolving short texts from people with different lived experiences, or form your own belief for a better world and argue for it; be another voice shouting in the chaos of growth.
Because you larp about revolution that will never come. Anarchists recognise that rather than sit on our arses pretending that one day we will all rise up in revolt and until than we should sit back and do absolutely nothing to build the new world or fight, that we can actively create mutual-aid and fight today. And guess what, if the fucking heavens part and the mass revolution starts, we can still join in so it’s not like anything has been lost by us being proactive.
The focus on the individual is in relation to individual actions and ethics. A small group or cell is formidable and very real threat to governments, revolutionary book clubs are not.
We likewise don’t want to throw any individual into the grinder of the system because they didn’t ‘fit in’ as we’ve seen places like the USSR, China, and yes even Cuba (up until recently) do to it’s LGBT peoples and other innocent people. Ethics and morals are up to us to judge, not a state or society as a whole.
That’s what individualism is, it does not mean we hate working together or hate community. That’s tankie propaganda.
Yes, I do a lot in my local community and aid-groups.
Simple. We all become farmers again, each cultivating small plots by hand. You can substitute industrial inputs with labor in many cases. So basically reverse automation.
Sure, we’d have to give up all sorts of modern luxuries (like electronics) because we’d be de-automating, but we can live without those things … right?
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Simple, by disregarding materialism and the evolution of productive forces!
Materialism? You mean the love of superfluous consumerism?
Tankies want consumerism and “productive forces” (whatever that opaque jargon means)? See, tankies are indistinguishable from capitalists!
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Please use tone indicators, I’m pretty sure you’re being sarcastic?
Added them in
Thank you 💚
Luxuries like…medicine, clean drinking water, a reliable food source, eating fresh food in the winter, not living like the family in The VVitch
“But humans did without those things for hundreds of thousands of years!”
It’s absurd and also kinda shitty to women to not acknowledge that the lower life expectancy came from infant mortality being super high AS WELL as women dying during childbirth all the fucking time. They may enjoy the medical steps taken to insure they most likely wont die birthing a child who doesnt have the best chance of even making it to their first birthday. Seems like a bad situation.
Ad for environmentalist reasons, humans were extinction machines before agriculture too. We took out several lines of megafauna who couldn’t stand up to the power of throwing and long distance walking. I can kinda fuck with the idea that every living thing on earth is just better off without us but I dont think there’s any level of primitivism aside from like…abandoning fire and tools that would really change that and the second someone who knows how to make a fire gets cold, theyre gonna just make a fucking fire. Voluntary extinction is also a really silly notion to think youll get enough people to agree to, most people wont even go vegan. There is never ever going to be a moment where everyone just decides not to use things that make their lives easier.
I mean not if you hape a pacemaker no, you couldn’t. Or an insulinpump. Or if you need an MRI, catscan, xray, modern glasses that don’t break your nose etc.
Did you forget a /s tag?
I’m being 100% sarcastic.