Against anarcho-primitivism and its “golden age” fantasies

Civilization and its Discontents – critical reflections on anarcho-primitivism

Detail from ‘Death of Wolfe’ by Benjamin West (1770).

In a polemical broadside against ‘anti-civilizational’ anarchists (particularly John Zerzan), Brian Morris argues that language, agriculture and technology are essential to the libertarian socialist struggle, and must be defended against the ‘myth of the noble savage’.

Civilization and its Discontents – critical reflections on anarcho-primitivism