Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:48:12 -0600
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-mutualaid.org>
Subject: Re: primitivism and anarchism


Ze Sprout wrote:

> I'm not sure if this has anything to do with age (i guess Chuck0 is some years younger than i am, and Dave is certainly some couples of years older, i don't know about Iain), but also with the way one came to become an anarchist and in what kind of environment. I carry with me a light catholic upbringing in the sixties-seventies (i'm 44 now), and i guess i identify myself with what is labelled here "traditional" anarchism, except that just because of the time period i grew up this "traditional" anarchism is mixed with "life-stylist" (hippie-punkish) elements, nourished by the trahison of as well hippies as punkers. So i always feel very uncomfortable reading this name-calling discussions because in se most of us here long for the same future where name-calling would just be a nice passing of time in the glocal pub.

I'm 38 and come from a Republican family (with some libertarian 
leanings) in the suburbs of Kansas City.

I never was a punk, so the only time that I've been a "lifestyle 
anarchist" was during my early to mid 30s when I wore lots of black.

I'm more of an anarcho-metrosexual these days. ;-)

Most of the stuff I read as a young anarchist (mid 80s) was social 
anarchist stuff such as Bookchin. I also read Anarchy magazine since 
that was available in the American Midwest. The American anarchist 
movement at that time was pretty nonexistent, so my early influences 
come from a variety of anarchist and non-anarchist sources.

Chuck0