#anti-civ

[vampirechatroom]

posting the shit that would get the canadian federal police looking through my twitter profile again

#eco anarchism #climate justice #ecoanarchy #anti-civ #civ is a fuck #kill your local oil executive #anarchy

[forbidden-sorcery]

#anti-civ #green anarchy

[tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth]

"I don’t think one can separate a critique of the state and capital from a critique of civilization. Civilization gave birth to the state and capital, which brought all kinds of oppressions and tools to manage that oppression such as surveillance, greed, domination, and all the other shitty things people find logic in doing to each other and the environment. Civilization is explained away by capital as being advancements in efficiency and quality of life, but remember the life expectancy of a Black male in the U.S. is about 25 years. He is expected to be dead or in prison by 25 years of age. Civilization has caused a disconnect between people and the earth. Civilization has given birth to all kinds of diseases; drugs that don’t cure anything but have you buying them to “manage” the disease, feed their greed; pollution; patriarchy; racism; prisons; etc. Civilization is the root cause of the misery which we term oppression and must be dismantled, ruthlessly and utterly destroyed." - anarchist prisoner Michael Kimble

#michael kimble #anarchism #anti-civ

[autogyne-redacted]

what’s wrong with building codes?

Ok fair, this isn't a line of critique ppl talk about much and probably isn't intuitive from lots of positions.

But they're a fundamental piece of how capitalism (tries to) force us to play its game and of how it destroys alternative lifeways!

Also worth noting that nearly all traditional indigenous dwellings are gonna be illegal by most building codes. That alone should make you real skeptical of them.

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For most of human history, in most places, people could build dwellings at the individual or small group level out of readily available, natural materials. (Eg from what I've read 1-2 people can build a wigwam in 3 days that'll last well over a year).

This kind of set up gives individuals way more power over their housing and isn't conducive to landlording or housing debt. Readily available housing means way less pressure to stay with shitty family/housemates/partners/jobs. It removes one of the primary forms of leverage.

Building codes make it difficult or fully illegal to live in anything other than a modern, conventional home.*

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Modern homes are convenient in tons of ways. But:

Older tech gets portrayed as way worse than it was, and:

A lot of that convenience primarily matters if you're spending most of your time/energy working because you're living thoroughly inside the market and if you're separated from the skills and knowledge to take care of your shit without modern conveniences.

Civ has a gravity to it. You (theoretically/legally) have to pay a certain amount in taxes, at the point at which you're working a little, probably you find at least some things you want to buy. As you work more you handle less shit yourself and pay more so other people handle it for you. As more people are doing this community becomes harder and harder to find if you're holding out. And the skills, knowledge and lifeways for living outside of civ are harder to access.

While mass violence is needed at times, that's not needed or sustainable long term.

With the commons enclosed, the genocide and forced relocation of indigenous people enacted, industrialization and urbanization complete, more mundane and bureaucratic forms of coercion tend to do the trick for the few hold outs and breakaways.

Shit like telling you you have to install a septic system you can't begin to afford, or condemning your house.

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*while the details of what's allowed and what's prohibited vary massively from place to place, it is a practical tension I and friends come up against with the state, and even if it wasn't I think it makes sense to object on principle/with an eye towards the future.

Child custody standards (what's grounds for the state taking your kid/what's gonna count against you in a custody battle) often go above and beyond building codes in requiring normative dwellings.

I'm thinking of details like: septic/sewer standards, requiring electric/water hookups, requiring buildings made to last decades vs easy to build structures that are rebuilt every few years or require more active maintenance, making it difficult or impossible to use natural materials, etc.

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Qualifier: I think building codes serve a purpose in landlord-tennant relationships but without them it'd be way easier to escape renting

#anti-civ #theory #writing #none of this is about me #obviously since i would never break any laws #thanks for the ask!!

[noneedtofearorhope]

Many [insurrectionary anarchists] refuse to offer a specific, singular model of the future at all, believing that people will choose a variety of social forms to organise themselves when given the chance. They are critical of groups or tendencies that believe they are ‘carriers of the truth’ and try to impose their ideological and formal solution to the problem of social organisation. Instead, many insurrectionary anarchists believe that it is through self-organisation in struggle that people will learn to live without institutions of domination.

“Insurrectionary Anarchism: Organize for Attack!” from Do or Die Issue 10

#insurrectionary anarchism #anarchism #anarchy #do or die #anti-civ

[cl0ck-killer]

Now, amid intensifying social and environmental breakdown, there is a growing realization that daily life overshadowed on every level by the internet complex has crossed a threshold of irreparability and toxicity. More and more people know or sense this, as they silently experience its damaging consequences. The digital tools and services used by people everywhere are subordinated to the power of transnational corporations, intelligence agencies, criminal cartels and a sociopathic billionaire elite. For the majority of the earth's population on whom it has been imposed, the internet complex is the implacable engine of addiction, loneliness, false hopes, cruelty, psychosis, indebtedness, squandered life, the corrosion of memory and social disintegration. All of its touted benefits are rendered irrelevant or secondary by its injurious and sociocidal impacts.

Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

#Scorched Earth #Jonathan Crary #anti-tech #tech critical #critique of the Internet #anti-civ #polemic #quotes #isolation #digital psychosis #addiction

[vraggoee]

ALF edit (posted on discord so I don't have a link to the original, but there is a watermark, so credit to tadashikeii)

#monkeywrenching #environmentalism #deep ecology #radical environmentalist #radical environmentalism #green anarchy #anprim #anarcho primitivism #anti-civ #anti civ #animal liberation front #ALF #animal liberation #earth liberation

[coyotegirl-domestic-terrorism]

i think one of the worst parts about civilization is that i’m trapped. nature and wildness and freedom are only a couple hundred feet away but i can’t just go run into the forest and never come back. i’m stuck.

#tw vent #anti-civ #otherkin

[111seedhillroad]

Self-determination should be read as the desire for people who are self-organized (whether by tradition, individual choice, or inclination) to decide how they want to live with each other. This may seem like common sense, and it is, but it is also consistently violated by people who believe that their value system supersedes that of those around them. The question that anarchists of all stripes have to answer for themselves is whether they are capable of dealing with the consequences of other people living in ways they find reprehensible.

Aragorn! Locating an Indigenous Anarchism

#Aragorn! #anarchism #indigenous anarchism #anti-civ

[tragicallyphosphorescent2]

I honestly wanna see Indigenous activists learn about Indigneous populations like Albanians, Crimean Tatars, Circassians, Armenians, Basques, and several Finnic speakers (not just Saamis; whom I deeply respect and admire). Not only that but I wanna hear them speak about the Rohigya, Uyghurs and the Ainu. As well as maybe done Baltic speakers.

While we're at it let's have a discussion on how monarchism and imperialism are the precursors of nationalism today and let's acknowledge the disappearing traces of indigenous lifestyle in particularly post-imperial Europe and Asia. Let's talk about Sardinia and Catalonia. And why not also about Sicily, Calabria, Alpine people (in Switzerland, Australia, Italy) and also peasant populations in Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Greece etc.

Might I even suggest those from the Brittish Isles? Yes you hear me. I'm talking about the Scots and the Manx and the Welsh and even those Northern English people and indeed the Irish whether in free Ireland of North Ireland. It is absolutely essential to talk about assimilation and the danger of pan-nationalisms especially in Europe but also elsewhere such as in China for example or YES even in the SWANA region. There are many indigenous tribes there who are linguistically assimilated and speak Arabic or Turkish or Persian though with distinct accents. Their cultures and identities are still alive!

Especially from an anarchist and anti-civ perspective we simply have to talk about the dangers of assimilatory nationalisms and industrialization as well as urbanization on tribal communities and cultures and their knowledge. Much of it is lost to us today. Plus from a vegan perspective we can talk about how indigenous animal husbandry is being lost to factory farming and the like. Though we need to add the population boom into perspective there.

#Indigneous peoples #Indigenous Rights #Indigeneity #Indigenous cultures #Leftism #Anarchism #Anti-civ #Veganism

[vampirechatroom]

hearing amazon employees (not warehouse workers; i’m talking specifically about tech workers who make upwards of 100k a year doing fake fucking email jobs) talk about how their vision of the future includes “green amazon cargo ships” and a “strong green economy” is fucking laughable. actual clown shit. my vision for the future includes jeff bezos being dragged from his home and killed in the street for the destruction he’s wrought against people and planet. my vision for the future includes amazon hq reduced to rubble and a community garden/food forest being built amongst the remediated ruins. 

#fuck amazon #fuck tech bros #anticapitalism #anti-civ #eco anarchism

[forbidden-sorcery]

#anarchy #anarchism #anti-civ

[nikolasongsa]

“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”

Rober E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian

#Conan the barbarian #Robert E. Howard #naturism #barbarism #barbarianism #savagery #noble savage #savage #human nature #primordial #anti-civ #anti-tech #anprim #luddism

[noneedtofearorhope]

‘socialism or barbarism’ is a phrase that i think we ought to phase out, at least in that specific form.

like, i get the meaning, that the logical conclusion of our current society is outright fascism, and the only alternative is revolt and the creation of socialism. i get that. but when you look at the history of the word ‘barbarism’, it’s a word calling for purity of culture, a word which delineates between the cultured, civilized, and therefore superior in group, and a primitive, uncivilized, and therefore inferior other. it’s far more a word to be used by fascists than it is to describe them.

as i see it, socialism is about solidarity with the underclasses, and often there is no greater underclass than those seen as being completely outside of society, those cast as ‘barbarians’, those who are targeted by fascists for elimination. if anything it should be ‘socialism and barbarism’, ‘socialism as barbarism’. we should seek to sack rome, to see the fall of empire.

#socialism #socialism or barbarism #communism #anarchism #anarchy #anti-civ

[cl0ck-killer]

#the only movie I want to see #spectacle #John Zerzan #anti-civ #OC

[vraggoee]

#anarcho primitivism #anprim #deep ecology #environmentalism #radical environmentalism #radical environmentalist #anti civ #anti-civ #earth liberation #green anarchy #monkeywrenching #earth first! #ELF #Youtube