John Zerkan, ed. Against Civilization.(Book review)

Utopian Studies | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

John Zerkan, ed. Against Civilization. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2005. xi + 275 pp. $14.00

On standard accounts, anarchism rejects states as both undesirable and unnecessary and proposes in their place a variety of alternative forms of collective existence. Anarcho-primitivism pushes the envelope by rejecting civilization entirely, and proposes in its place some sort of primitive or feral community, most popularly some sort of hunter-gatherer society. John Zerkan is considered one of the leading theoreticians of such an anarchism in the United States, and in this enlarged ...

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