Logical Analysis/Critique of Derrick Jensen’s Endgame/&”Anarcho/Primitivism”
Premise 1. Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for Industrial Civilization.
Premise.1 Civilization, is not sustainable, Civilization could be sustained, through depopulation, permaculture, and technological advancements in the future. Or Industrial Civilization, could collapse from unsustainable usage of natural resources. The human species will go extinct, sometime in the future, the manner in which the human species goes extinct, is an argument about “dignity” VS ” exhaustion”, in terms of how the human species will cease to exist.
Premise 2. Traditional communities do not often voluntarily give up or sell the resources on which their communities are based until their communities have been destroyed. They also do not willingly allow their land-bases to be damaged so that other resources-gold, oil and so on- can be extracted. It follows that those who want the resources will do what they can to destroy traditional communities.
Premise 2. Traditional communities, in respect to the usage of natural resources, did not have the ability, to over-consume, deforest, and cause desertification, the necessary of enormous amounts of caloric energy, to hunt, gather, stack firewood, carve stone tools, and not having enough efficiency to use technology to improve the quality of life, caused many traditional communities, to operate, in a very violent way, The Studying current hunter-gatherer tribes have shown that , the percent of male adults who die in violence is extraordinary – from 20 to 60% of all males. Even during the violent 20th century, with two world wars, less than 2% of males worldwide died in warfare.
Premise 3. Our way of living-industrial civilization-is based on, requires, and would collapse very quickly without persistent and widespread violence
Premise 3.The current state monopoly, on force, and coercion, is based on and requires widespread violence. An Industrial civilized nation, without a state does not require persistent or widespread violence, and could operate, efficiently with a free market economy, without a state, and no imminent collapse of the whole civilization would be caused, or required, as a result of a free market.
Premise 4.Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, it is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, and horror.
Premise 4. No clearly, the only people who can rationalize violence, done by people higher in the social hierarchy, upon people lower in the social hierarchy are those who believe in democracy, or other state power. Violence cannot be rationalized, by logical means, if the violence has no distinct purpose of self-defense against people who want to harm you. Hierarchy is more prevalent, and pervasive, in many Tribal communities, with Shamans, Tribal Chiefs, holding an unorganized monopoly of power over members of the tribal community. Hierarchy in the workplace, is a necessary component of capitalism, a centralized state hierarchy, is a monopoly of power.
Premise 5. The property of those higher on the hierarchy is more valuable than the lives of those below. It is acceptable for those above to increase the amount of property they control-in everyday language, to make money-by destroying or taking the lives of those below. This Is called production. If those below damage the property of those above, those above may kill or otherwise destroy the lives of those below this is called justice.
Premise 5. No production, is not necessarily a problem, if production involves using natural resources, that do not include, killing animals to satiate, the appetite, of people who could simply use vitamin supplements to reduce the amount of suffering they inflict on creatures living on Earth. Vulgar crony-capitalism, is a merger of corporate interests and state interests, which ensure that monopolies of power are maintained, and barriers of entry prevent real competition in the market economy, as small businesses, cannot compete, with the fix pricing, in specific goods, by corporations who hold a monopoly of market share.
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Just thought I’d put my thoughts on anarcho-capitalism out there for the internet to look at.
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A call to stop anarchist in-fighting and conflict.
In this late night rant I discuss a recent conversation I had with my boss (who happens to be an anarchist). Although I don’t agree with him any more than I did before this conversation I did end up gaining a better understanding of how he and others like him think. In other words I made a profit. A profit in understanding. All profit is not based in dollars and cents. When you understand that you will understand that everything is economics, and everything is about some sort of profit.
right what it say’s on the tin non violent ways to get workers power
lots of useless links, but lots fo functional ones:
Hugh Hendry of Eclectica Asset Management (http://www.eclectica-am.com/) spoke at LSE’s Alternative Investments Conference earlier this year. In particular he spoke about the generational shifts in attitudes towards leverage, thus concluding; ‘Really I should be attending the Young Farmers Society as opposed to the LSE’! The subsequent tumbleweeds were quite evident, but alas, we hear you Hugh!
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