Anti-civ

What it means: A critique of social relationships, technology, supply chains, deployment, industry and capital, even in 'socialist' countries, and offering or exploring alternatives

What it doesn't mean: Unga bunga Anprim
Anti-work

What it means: Undermining workerism, the figure of 'the worker', employment, highlighting useless industrial unions, and criticising our attitude toward labor and our role in it as a whole

What it doesn't mean: Me lazy me no do anything
Youth liberation

What it means: Removing youth from the clutches of abusive institutions and control of abusive adults, criticising power relations between adult and child, criticising the nuclear family

What it doesn't mean: Muh secret pxdo cabal
Post-structuralism

What it means: Grounding causes for events in the concept of overdetermination, rejecting totalizing grand narratives, working on micro not macro levels of analysis

What it doesn't mean: Silly pomo word distraction game
Anti-tech

What it means: A criticism of our current relationship with technology, its consequences, and how it's deployed, and our environmental destruction for profit, also proposing solutions

What it doesn't mean: Unga bunga all technology bad
Anti-agriculture

What it means: Rejecting extractivist deployment of purified chemicals, highlighting over-sterilization of the natural world, criticising monocultures and advocating poly or permaculture

What it doesn't mean: Unga bunga no food and starve
Decentralization

What it means: Undermining supply chains, helping people become self-sufficient on a local level, helping people create novel methods of organization fit for purpose in their specific area based on their needs

What it doesn't mean: Everyone fend for themselves
Rewilding

What it means: Reducing burden on overworked land by allowing animals to free roam and graze, allowing native species to thrive, de-emphasising profit motivated use of land

What it doesn't mean: Everyone go live in a tent without doctors
Decivilization

What it means: General umbrella term for methods, criticisms and ideas based around changing human relationships with the world and trying to change the fact our model of civilization ravages the planet and everything in it

What it doesn't mean: Chaos and famine
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