Anarchism is not primitivism.
In recent decades, groups of quasireligious mystics have begun equating the primitivism they advocate (rejection of science, rationality, and technologyoften lumped together under the blanket term, "technology") with anarchism.⁵ In reality, the two have nothing to dowith each other, as we‘ll see when we consider what anarchism actually is－a set of philosophical/ethical precepts and organizational principles designedto maximize human freedom. - P2
5. Ted Kaczynski is in some ways quite typical of this breedof romantic. He differs from most of them in that he actedon his beliefs (albeit in a cowardly, violent manner) and thathe actually lived a relatively primitive existence in the backwoods of Montanaunlike most of his coreligionists, wholive comfortably in urban areas and employ the technologiesthey profess to loathe. - P5
Anarchism is not chaos; Anarchism is notrejectionof organization.
(전략). Overand over in the writings of Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Rocker, Ward, Bookchin, et al., one findsnot a rejection of organization, but rather a preoccupation with it－a preoccupation with how society should be organized in accord with the anarchist principles of individual freedom and social justice. - P3
Anarchism is not amoral egotism.
(전략). These individuals tend to give anarchism a bad name, because even though they have very little in common with actual anarchists－that is, persons concerned with ethical behavior, social justice, and the rights of both themselves and others－they‘re often quite exhibitionistic, and their disreputable actions sometimes come into the public eye. Tomake matters worse, these exhibitionists sometimespublish their self-glorifying views and deliberately misidentify those views as "anarchist." - P3
This police informer‘s actions－which, revealingly, he‘s attempted to hide－are completely in line with his ideology of amoral egotism ("post-left anarchism"), but they have nothing to do with actual anarchism. - P3
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