Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:21:40 -0600
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-mutualaid.org>
Subject: Re: primitivism and anarchism


Dave Coull wrote:

> Ah, so you are an  _alleged_  primitivist !!!!!
> 
> That will have to do to be going on with, until
> a real one learns how to string words together
> in something resembling coherent sentences.

I can be the "fake anarchy-list primitivist" for food.

> So, tell us Chuck0, why do some dumbshit anarchists
> allege that you are a primitivist? What are their
> (presumably flimsy) grounds for doing so? Why is 
> the allegation untrue? In what ways do you have 
> something in common with Ug and his followers, 
> and in what ways do you differ from them? 

It mostly has to do with guilt-by-association. There seems to be a 
handful of anarchists in the U.S. who think that anybody who is 
associated with Anarchy magazine is a minion of Satan. I happen to be 
the unofficial webmaster for Anarchy magazine and am good friends with 
Jason McQuinn and I share certain ideas, so that makes me part of the 
Evil Primitivist Conspiracy(tm).

I do agree with many of the criticisms of "workerist" anarchists, but I 
come to that because I see many of them as dogmatic, non-critical 
ideologues who can't think outside of the box.

Chuck0