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Julianne4y ago
**Anarcho-primitivism is the return to a "primitive", "uncivilized" way of life where hunting and gathering was prime and nonegalitarian social and organizational structures did not exist.**
- [Anarcho-primitivism](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-what-is-anarcho-primitivism) would be egalitarian by nature. It would be an attempt to eradicate all forms of domination. No one group or person could dominate over others, which would, indeed, suggest an unparalleled, natural "justness." However, "civilized" forms of life which arose over [the past 10,000 years](https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/HIST101-1.2-OriginsofCiv-FINAL1.pdf) can hold within them the capacity for equality on a large scale alongside an ability to justly help more humans maintain a secure lifestyle. So it depends what one means by and desires from "justness" in this argument. Perhaps it's more "just" to help more people achieve security and live safer, longer lives than to have purely egalitarian interactions above all else. Conversely, settling into complex civilizations had the negative effects of spreading diseases and increasing sensitivity to environmental changes, among other things. So maybe the justness of expanding survival is overshadowed by a net negative in that regard.
- Supporters of anarchism have, in general, a lot of faith in humans---faith that they will cooperate outside any societal structures that promote order. Supporters of anarcho-primitivism hold faith in humans, too, but require perhaps slightly less of it with their personal strain of hunter-gathering, where bands of humans would be a somewhat social structure that would enable natural, egalitarian cooperation at least within itself.
- Further reading: https://greenpolitics.fandom.com/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism
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rabidfox3y ago
People forget the benefits of a democratic society.
beating people with sticks and killing people who create technology and dying from preventable diseases doesnt sound like a just society but a hippy pipe dream that would only work on a smaller scale till theres work to be done that no one wants to do. In which case it falls flat. A lot of these people complain about current society being work or starve but returning to hunter gather or societys is literally work all day not to starve and you still might.
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Turi3y ago
I get that this isn't your general point, but on the specific question of hunter-gatherers working all day not to starve, there's been a bunch of recent research suggesting that in fact they had *lots* of spare time!
Marshall Sahlins was, I think, the first to propose this in his work on the [Original Affluent Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society), though in that Wikipedia article you'll also see the argument (more salient to your general point) that life was still pretty awful!
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