I mean, if you get rid of the exploitative, socially-harmful and enviromentally-destructive technology while keeping the stuff that actually helps people, and spread everyone out in a bunch of small decentralized communes, wouldn't that just fall under regular anarchism? You could probably have some communes oriented around a more simple, agricultural lifestyle (although I guess actual anprims would want to go the hunter-gatherer route, but if you're keeping useful technology you might as well keep agriculture, as long as it's done in a sustainable manner).
I'm not actually well read on anarchism though, so my perception might be wrong.
Probably. I think a viable soft an-prim take might be not to just reject technology out of hand, but that industrial society at our level is mostly the result of a fossil fuel bubble that will come to an end and we face a serious energy descent. The future would not be some kind of reversion to a mythical hunter gatherer past (The Dawn of Everything makes a pretty good case against some of the main assumptions of real primitivism) but a bizarre clash of the ongoing remnants of the high tech point of the past mixed with far more "traditional" ways of interacting with the land.
My challenge to all the eco-fascists who call for a population reduction - we don't actually know the sustainable carrying capacity of the earth. It may well support something like the population we have today under the most efficient distribution of resources and a return of a large percentage of the population to having some kind of relationship with food production, care work, teaching, etc.
I mean, if you get rid of the exploitative, socially-harmful and enviromentally-destructive technology while keeping the stuff that actually helps people, and spread everyone out in a bunch of small decentralized communes, wouldn't that just fall under regular anarchism? You could probably have some communes oriented around a more simple, agricultural lifestyle (although I guess actual anprims would want to go the hunter-gatherer route, but if you're keeping useful technology you might as well keep agriculture, as long as it's done in a sustainable manner).
I'm not actually well read on anarchism though, so my perception might be wrong.
Probably. I think a viable soft an-prim take might be not to just reject technology out of hand, but that industrial society at our level is mostly the result of a fossil fuel bubble that will come to an end and we face a serious energy descent. The future would not be some kind of reversion to a mythical hunter gatherer past (The Dawn of Everything makes a pretty good case against some of the main assumptions of real primitivism) but a bizarre clash of the ongoing remnants of the high tech point of the past mixed with far more "traditional" ways of interacting with the land.
My challenge to all the eco-fascists who call for a population reduction - we don't actually know the sustainable carrying capacity of the earth. It may well support something like the population we have today under the most efficient distribution of resources and a return of a large percentage of the population to having some kind of relationship with food production, care work, teaching, etc.