The coupling of anarchism and primitivism within modern radical discourse needs to be entirely deconstructed. First, I would like to point out the obvious and inherent logical fallacies in this coalescence of, on the one hand, an array of social movements whose sole unifying ideological standpoint is an opposition to unequal power dynamics, and on the other hand, a socio-cultural movement which openly advocates biological essentialism, which translates to insubstantiation of fluid gender identities and other such destructions of personal freedom, and the abolition of human creativity and inquiry through the “moral obligation” for humans to “fill their niche” within a biosphere. This is not even mentioning other troublesome logic within the primitivist discourse, which I won’t touch upon here, but will simply say, “Yo, dudes, ever heard of this thing called the naturalistic fallacy? It’s closely tied to other problematic and illogical argument forms like appeal to nature and appeal to tradition…wait, were you calling yourselves anarchists? Anarchists making appeals to tradition. Yeah. Okay.” Get the fuck out of my movement.

I’m concerned with freedom, not anthropocentrically, but [freedom in a broader sense of a maximization of informed agency][], which includes taking into context the environment we all share. That’s right, I said it. I care about the trees; I care about the non-human and human animals; I care about the cyborgs and the robots and the AIs. To quote Queering the Singularity: “Outside of hierarchy, a diversity of legitimate life arrangements exist. We need a radical coalition capable united action against the oppressors and a future vision that embraces both reaching for the stars and returning to the woods.”

But I don’t care about you, primitivists. Can’t you see that my way still allows you to opt-out and go live in the woods? It’s not the scientists who are the enemy here, it’s the goddamned State. So get the fuck out, you primitivists, you who go around bombing nanotechnology research centers, too blinded by your dogma to understand that nanofabrication would provide methods of materials production while drastically reducing mining and logging. If you can build atoms and molecules from the particles up, why mine coal when you could literally grow it in a lab? No, this isn’t science fiction; welcome to the 21st century. And why do you persist in subservience to “natural” limitations? We need to look at what we are capable of, rather than rely on frequency analysis of events. Yes, humans are, more often than not, born as either male or female. Yes, governments cover every scrap of dry land. But none of these have to be the case.

Also, your leader: Yeah, he’s cooperating with the FBI. Y’all were saying something? Wait. I can’t hear you. All I’m hearing is “We’re a bunch of fascistic, heteronormative, and illogical scum.”

I’m going to cut this short because Donna Haraway rather elegantly postulated (minus the socialist portions) my position twenty years ago in “A Cyborg Manifesto”. Read it. It’s good. It’s really, really good.

Seriously, read “A Cyborg Manifesto”.