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Download Green Anarchy #18 NothingNothing man-mademan-made lastslasts forever…forever… GREENGREEN ANARCHYANARCHY …and…and thisthis civilizationcivilization willwill alsoalso fall.fall. ISSUEISSUE ## 1818 FALL/WINTERFALL/WINTER 2004-52004-5 $4$4 USA,USA, $5$5 CANADA,CANADA, $6$6 EUROPE,EUROPE, $7$7 WORLDWORLD WeWe willwill germinategerminate inin thethe dustydusty debrisdebris FREEFREE TOTO PRISONERSPRISONERS ofof lifetimeslifetimes ofof horror.horror. WeWe willwill expressexpress ourour retortretort onon thethe crumblingcrumbling wallswalls ofof theirtheir cities.cities. WeWe willwill playplay inin thethe wreckagewreckage ofof aa loathsomeloathsome logic.logic. WeWe willwill makemake lovelove onon thethe ruinsruins ofof aa repulsiverepulsive landscape.landscape. WeWe willwill frolicfrolic inin thethe remainsremains ofof aa forgottenforgotten time.time. WeWe willwill livelive aa lifelife worthworth living…living… …in…in thethe ruinsruins ofof civilization!civilization! GREENGREEN ANARCHYANARCHY POPO BOXBOX 1133111331 Eugene,Eugene, OROR 9744097440 [email protected]@greenanarchy.org AnAn Anti-CivilizationAnti-Civilization JournalJournal ofof TTheoryheory andand ActionAction i am whatever i want to be ii i am alive “work makes you free” (Auschwitz death camp) am i am not a role am i am not a role i am not a worker i am not my occupation i am not your slave i am not a cog i am not a commodity i am not yet completely broken i am not limited by your narrowness i am not the total sum of my production i am not a column of economic value i am not less than anything i am not upwardly mobile i am not part of the masses i am not here voluntarily i am not what you want me to be i am not expendable i am not giving up i am not compliant i am not... free.free. Issue #18 Direct Action: Fall/Winter 2004 Earth Liberation, pg 22 Anti-genetics Actions, pg 25 Anarchist Resistance, pg 28 Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Colonial Battles, pg 36 Contents: Prisoner Escapes, Mutinies, and Revolts, pg 41 Indigenous and Campasino Resistance, pg 46 To Produce or To Not Produce? by Kevin Tucker, pg 2 Symptoms of the System’s Meltdown, pg 56 Winds of War, Winds of Change!, pg 4 The Swelling of Leeches by The Cocktail Furies, pg 6 Sections: Thirteen Notes on Class Struggle for Discussion by sasha k, pg 8 Welcome to Green Anarchy, pg 5 Class Struggle: The Reformation of Kings Recommended Readings on Class Struggle, pg 9 by Theresa Kintz, pg 10 The Nihilist’s Dictionary #3–Culture, pg 35 A Surrounding for Us to Live Within State Repression News, pg 52 by A friend of Ludd, pg 12 The Garden Of Peculiarities: Fragment 14, pg 55 The birth and death of the worker by zach fredell, pg 15 Reviews, pg 60 The Modern Anti-World by John Zerzan, pg 16 Letters, pg 68 You Won’t Find Me on Friendster by Sphinx, pg 18 News from the Balcony with Waldorf and Statler, pg 73 When the zombies take over, how long till the Green Anarchy Distribution, pg 82 electricity fails? with Tom O’Bedlam, pg 20 Subscriber and Distributor Info, pg 83 Failure To Appear at The Trial: Reclaiming Franz Ads and Announcements, pg 84 Kafka for Anarchy, pg 26 Jacques Camatte: And the New Politics of Liberation Smash the symbols of the Empire (Part I) by Dave Antagonism, pg 32 in the name of nothing but Space and Capital by Alfredo Bonanno, pg 38 the heart’s longing for grace. Class Dismissed by Rob los Ricos, pg 44 Operation Civilization: The War That Is All Wars by Saura Agni, pg 48 About getting free from the myth of Revolution by Pablo A., pg 58 “Now What?” A Primitivist Strategy Proposal by RedWolfReturns, pg 72 A Look At the Feral Visions Gathering by Felonious Skunk, pg 74 Why Shall We Meet?, pg 76 A Message from Anti-Civilization Anarchists in Turkey, pg 77 Scandinavian Travels of an Insurrectionary Green Anarcho-Nihilist by Felonious Skunk, pg 78 The Error of Correction, pg 81 Page 1 FALL/WINTER ISSUE ToTo produceproduce oror ToTo nnotot produce?produce? byby KevinKevin Class,Class, ModernityModernity andand IdentityIdentity TuckerTucker CLASS IS A SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP. What about the savages whom farmers and These societies are intrinsically anti-production, Stripped to its base, it is about economics. It’s conquistadors (for all they can be separated) anti-wealth, anti-power, and anti-economics. about being a producer, distributor or an owner could only see as lazy for not working? Are They are simply egalitarian to the core: organic, of the means and fruits of production. No matter economics universal? primal anarchy. But that doesn’t tell us how we what category any person is, it’s about identity. Let’s look back at our definition. became economic people. How work became Who do you identify with? Or better yet, what The crux of economy is production. So if identity. Looking at the origins of civilization do you identify with? Every one of us can production is not universal, then economy tells us. Civilization is based on production. The be put into any number of socio-economic cannot be. We’re in luck, it’s not. The savage first instance of production is surplus production. categories. But that isn’t the question. Is your Others beyond the walls of Eden, the walls of Nomadic gatherer/hunters got what they needed job your identity? Is it your economic niche? Babylon, and the gardens: nomadic gatherer/ when they needed it. They ate animals, insects, Let’s take a step back. What are economics? hunters, produced nothing. A hunter does not and plants. When a number of gatherer/hunters My dictionary defines it as: “the science of produce wild animals. A gatherer does not pro- settled, they still hunted animals and gathered production, distribution, and consumption of duce wild plants. They simply hunt and gather. plants, but not to eat (at least not immediately). goods and services.” Fair In Mesopotamia, the cradle enough. Economies do exist. of our now global civilization, In any society where there is vast fields of wild grains could unequal access to the necessities be harvested. Grain, unlike of life, where people are depen- meat and most wild plants, can dent upon one another (and be stored without any intensive more importantly, institutions) technology. It was put in huge there is economy. The goal of granaries. But grain is harvested revolutionaries and reformists seasonally. As populations has almost always been about expand, they become depen- reorganizing the economy. dent upon granaries rather than Wealth must be redistributed. what is freely available. Enter Capitalist, communist, socialist, distribution. The granaries syndicalist, what have you, were owned by elites or family it’s all about economics. elders who were in charge of Why? Because production rationing and distributing to has been naturalized, science the people who filled their lot. can always distinguish Dependency means compro- economy, and work is just a mise: that’s the central element necessary evil. of domestication. Grain must It’s back to the fall from Eden be stored. Granary owners where Adam was punished to till the soil for Their existence is give and take, but this is store and ration the grain in exchange for disobeying God. It’s the Protestant work ethic ecology, not economy. Every one in a nomadic increased social status. Social status means and warnings of the sin of ‘idle hands’. Work gatherer/hunter society is capable of getting what coercive power. This is how the State arose. becomes the basis for humanity. That’s the they need on their own. That they don’t is a matter In other areas, such as what is now the north- inherent message of economics. of mutual aid and social cohesiveness, not force. west coast of the United States into Canada, store Labor “is the prime basic condition for all If they don’t like their situation, they change it. houses were filled with dried fish rather than human existence, and this to such an extent that, They are capable of this and encouraged to do grain. Kingdoms and intense chiefdoms were in a sense, we have to say that labor created man so. Their form of exchange is anti-economy: established. The subjects of the arising power himself.” That’s not Adam Smith or God talking generalized reciprocity. This means simply that were those who filled the storehouses. This (at least this time), that’s Friedrich Engels. people give anything to anyone whenever. There should sound familiar. Expansive trade networks But something’s very wrong here. What are no records, no tabs, no taxes and no running were formed and the domestication of plants and about the Others beyond the walls of Eden? system of measurement or worth. then animals followed the expansion of populations. GREEN ANARCHY #18 Page 2 The need for more grain turned gatherers into If you believed God, Smith or Engels, labor of production itself. About how we came to farmers. The farmers would need more land and was your essence. It made you human. To have believe that spending our lives building power wars were waged. Soldiers were conscripted. your labor stolen from you must have been the that is wielded against us is justified. About how Slaves were captured. Nomadic gatherer/hunters worst of all crimes. The workers ran the machine compromising our lives as free beings to become and horticulturalists were pushed away and and it was within their grasp to take it over. They workers and soldiers became a compromise we killed. The people did all of this not because could get rid of the boss and put in a new one or were willing to make.
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