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viper5delta t1_j10a3y0 wrote

I've never understood the issue that anarchists have with money. It can certainly be used coercively, but fundamentally it is just a representation and abstraction of human labor and productivity.

Claiming that money as a concept should be abolished seems tantamount to saying that the trade of goods and services between individuals should be abolished.

The other part that really stood out to me was >anarcho-primitivism does not entail the ludicrous refusal of all technology (such as fire, pottery or even agriculture, which, incidentally predates the horrors of state-run farms)... >it certainly doesn’t entail, as some critics like to believe, a recommendation for the extermination of mankind.

Which seems to be trying to have it's cake and eat it too. Quite simply, the world can not sustain its current population with the extremely limited agricultural technology proposed. Advocating for a return to the primitive agricultural technology proposed is either profound ignorance or advocating for the death of billions.

There were other minor quibbles where I don't believe it would turn out as the author proposes, but those were two things that really stood out to me.

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