Submitted by Chomskyist in Anarchism
Primitivists are not anarchists in exactly the same sense capitalists are not anarchists. Primitivists oppose the state as part of their overall program against civilization, but this alone does not make them anarchists, much like capitalist opposition to the state does not make capitalists anarchists.
Primitvists do not support the creation of an anarchist society, but rather, the creation of primitvism, wherein morality would be defined as "what's good for the planet" and thought, technology, etc., would be systemically eliminated.
This is not an anarchist society, wherein people are free and equal, but just one without a state.
theblackcat wrote
I'm a green anarchist in that that the living earth is my priority, not the industrial system or any set of human technologies. You're saying that this morality I have where I care about the entire planet means I'm not an anarchist?