Submitted by subrosa in anticiv

I've never paid alll that much attention to the green, primitivist and anti-civ side of things. At least not enough to know its history, not enough to have a feel for what's out there. I have read and watched some Zerzan, and a handful of other Green Anarchy contributors. From what I've gathered, it seems like the broader 'movement' was strongest in the 2000's and maybe the early 2010s.

Today's anarchists seem to be more interested in arguing whether Kropotkin or Malatesta wrote a better introductory text. It seems like the recent surge in interest in anarchism somehow doesn't translate to a new wave of green/anti-civ thought or content.

Do you think that's somewhat accurate? Are there some new developments I'm not seeing?

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Pop wrote

Desert, which we've posted here, and which exists as audibook searchable on the site also, and was also a topic of our reading club, is one popular approach

and it was followed but the recent An Invitation to Desertion which i just reposted here, and is a good though flowery intro

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subrosa OP wrote (edited )

Desert is great; didn't know about the Invitation, I'll check it out. Thanks!

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cdubose wrote

Desert... was also a topic of our reading club

Oo, can we get that going again?

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Pop wrote (edited )

Probably would take some organising and a person or two bottomlining the job, some people might be able and willing to do it

f/readingclub

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_caspar_ wrote

the editorial Black Seed that LBC publishes is worth checking out, as well as many other pamphlets and books they publish. I feel the strongest developments make deeper explorations into, and find unique connections among: indigeneity, ecology, and philosophy. on a narrow scale it looks like very niche projects, on the broader scale (possibly not explicitly anarchist) it looks like homesteading/gardening efforts and drop-out culture.

more media projects: Backwoods, Contagion Press, Distinctively Dionysian, Eberhardt Press, Fiddler's Green, Oak Journal, Dark Mountain

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ThrashGoat wrote

Others Have mentioned Desert and Black Seed, that kind of tendency is sometimes called Green Nihilism. I say that is the big new development of Green Anarchy.

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