John Zerzan, in "Whose Future?", from the book Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2007) by James L. Harmon
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If we once — and for so long — lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that’s overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history.

— John Zerzan on Anarchism

What It Means

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John Zerzan

About John Zerzan

John Zerzan (born in Salem, 10th August 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author.