Can We Build Socialist-Anarchist Alliances?
Against The Current vol. 141
McTaggart, Ursula
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2263
Date Written: 2009-07-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13537
Last summer I delivered a talk on primitivist anarchism at a conference devoted to Marxist literature and culture. The participants were mostly academics engaged with Marxist criticism, and most came out of university English departments. For many in this group of self-described Marxists, my attempt at bemused critical appreciation for this admittedly problematic group of anarchists was not welcome. Anarcho-primitivists, critics insisted, are not activists, and they certainly have no place among committed Marxists. Worse, they are misanthropic, individualistic terrorists — perhaps even genocidal in their overall aims to destroy civilization.
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