Anarcho-
primitivism is a political
ideology that advocates a return to non-"civilized" ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization and abandonment of large-scale
organization technologies. Anarcho-primitivists critique the origins and progress of the Industrial
Revolution and industrial
society. According to anarcho-
primitivism, the shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural subsistence during the Neolithic
Revolution gave rise to coercion, social alienation and social stratification. Some anarcho-primitivists state that prior to the advent of
agriculture humans lived in small, nomadic
bands which were socially, politically, and economically
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hierarchy, these
bands are sometimes viewed as embodying a form of
anarchism. Primitivists hold that following the emergence of
agriculture the growing masses of
humanity became evermore beholden to technology (techno addiction) and abstract power structures arising from the division of labor and
hierarchy. Anarcho-primitivists view civilization as the logic, institution, and physical apparatus of domestication, control, and domination. They focus primarily on the question of origins. Civilization is seen as the underlying problem or root of
oppression, and they believe that civilization should therefore be dismantled or destroyed. Murray Bookchin and many other class struggle oriented and social anarchists criticize
primitivism as offering "no way forwards in the struggle for a free
society" and that "often its adherents end up undermining that struggle by attacking the very things, like mass
organization, that are a requirement to win it"
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