File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2004/anarchy-list.0401, message 155


From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: RE: primitivism and anarchism
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:33:43 -0000




Matt writes


> the definition i've always seen thrown around for "lifestyle anarchist" 
> is someone who squats/dumpsters/travels/shoplifts etc but doesn't 
> really do any organizing.


My understanding of the term would be that a "lifestyle anarchist" 
is somebody who tends to be a bit cut off from the working class 
and from the class struggle, and so, consequently, from the hope
that this struggle will lead to a new society; and so they give
a higher priority to living a particular kind of "anarchic" lifestyle 
within this society. They may do some organising, but the kind
of organising they do will be oriented towards creating "dropout"
enclaves  _within_  this society, rather than class-struggle 
oriented organising with the aim of overthrowing this society.

I have taken part in squats, but I do not fit the description
"lifestyle anarchist".

My American wife tells me that a "dumpster" is the American term
for a skip. Well, I have furnished several houses out of the contents
of skips, but I do not fit the description of a "lifestyle anarchist".

As for "travels", who doesn't?

As for "shoplifts", who hasn't?

Dave C


   

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