Despite the quote, Kropotkin actually criticizes “civilized” peoples in Mutual Aid compared to “uncivilized” peoples, often in tribal forms of society. He doesn’t feitishize tribal societies either though, he tends to lean much more towards the village structure of society, which I agree on. I think an ideal anarchist society would function as a confederation of “villages” (note, I use that term loosely, I am not an anprim). There are PLENTY of historical examples of confederations across the world which have worked, long before the rise of the nation-state in the 1500s, which so “coincidently” forming alongside the advent of capitalism, individualism, and the beginning of European colonialism.
Anyways, I agree. I would describe myself as post-civ, as I think since the rise of the agricultural revolution, the socieities we look back on as entire civilizaitons have been controlled by a powerful, wealthy few, who use their monopoly on violence to enact their will. If that’s what civilization is, then I’m not really here for it.
Despite the quote, Kropotkin actually criticizes “civilized” peoples in Mutual Aid compared to “uncivilized” peoples, often in tribal forms of society. He doesn’t feitishize tribal societies either though, he tends to lean much more towards the village structure of society, which I agree on. I think an ideal anarchist society would function as a confederation of “villages” (note, I use that term loosely, I am not an anprim). There are PLENTY of historical examples of confederations across the world which have worked, long before the rise of the nation-state in the 1500s, which so “coincidently” forming alongside the advent of capitalism, individualism, and the beginning of European colonialism.
Anyways, I agree. I would describe myself as post-civ, as I think since the rise of the agricultural revolution, the socieities we look back on as entire civilizaitons have been controlled by a powerful, wealthy few, who use their monopoly on violence to enact their will. If that’s what civilization is, then I’m not really here for it.