Why Anarcho-Primitivism Doesn't Work (And A Comment on Kaczynski's Anti-Leftism)
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The roots of Anarcho-Primitivism are in the thought of Ted Kaczynski, an anarchist theorist who you may know as the Unabomber, who sent packages with bombs inside them to several airplanes and offices. His essay, Industrial Society and It’s Future, was published in September 22, 1995 and detailed reasons for why the industrial revolution was horrible for the human race, some of them I can get behind with. It features a heavy critique of both leftists and rightists of his time, as well as going into insight about why mental health is suffering in our modern day capitalist technological society. Kaczynski was right in some of these points, and he even critiqued Anarcho-Primitivism in his later works as well, aiming for an anarcho-luddite version of events, but the ideas that spawned out of his essay wanted a total return to hunter-gatherer societies.
Why Anarcho-Primitivism Doesn't Work (And A Comment on Kaczynski's Anti-Leftism)
Why Anarcho-Primitivism Doesn't Work (And A…
Why Anarcho-Primitivism Doesn't Work (And A Comment on Kaczynski's Anti-Leftism)
The roots of Anarcho-Primitivism are in the thought of Ted Kaczynski, an anarchist theorist who you may know as the Unabomber, who sent packages with bombs inside them to several airplanes and offices. His essay, Industrial Society and It’s Future, was published in September 22, 1995 and detailed reasons for why the industrial revolution was horrible for the human race, some of them I can get behind with. It features a heavy critique of both leftists and rightists of his time, as well as going into insight about why mental health is suffering in our modern day capitalist technological society. Kaczynski was right in some of these points, and he even critiqued Anarcho-Primitivism in his later works as well, aiming for an anarcho-luddite version of events, but the ideas that spawned out of his essay wanted a total return to hunter-gatherer societies.