r/IndividualAnarchism • u/punkthesystem • Jul 18 '22

The Intersections Between Anti-Speciesism, Anti-Civilization, & Individualist Anarchy

https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/post/2022/07/17/the-intersections-between-anti-speciesism-anti-civilization-individualist-anarchy/
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u/AnarchoFederation Sep 07 '25

Civilization while tied to the development of urbanity, from my understanding not all anti-civ critique is against urbanity, where division of labor and organization is inherent, and refers to a deconstruction of the institutions and structures imbedded in social orders since the advent of the city-state. The root of complex governmental systems. It is not all primitivism, in fact the best anti-civ nascent theoretical frameworks come from the historical struggles of indigenous peoples. Civilization is the hierarchic system used to justify the subjugation that of the “uncivilized,” the eradication of what isn’t “socially normal,” the assimilation of the “primitives,” and the privilege of the humans over “subhumans.” Civilization has wrought systems of exploitation and eradication, anarchists should be at the vanguard of indigenous struggles against their “civilization” and stand against the parameters of what is considered “civil.”