![]() ![]() ![]() In recent years, John Zerzan, co-editor of Black and Green Review, has successfully toured Europe to speak from his primitivist perspective regarding contemporary civilization. Zerzan provides a critical perspective about civilization.Ī People’s History of Civilization includes chapters about: This book includes sixteen essays ranging from the beginning of civilization to today’s general crisis. To assail civilization itself would be scandalous, but for the conclusion, occurring to more and more people, that it may be civilization that is the fundamental scandal. Subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought, and the concept of time. Discontent with civilization has been with us all along, but is coming on now with a new freshness and insistence, as if it were a new thing. ![]() The American anarchist, primitivist philosopher, and author John Zerzan critiques agriculture-based civilization as inherently oppressive and advocates drawing upon the life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what free society should look like. ![]()
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