"Green Anarchist" clique sabotages IMC
android9 | 31.05.2002 17:58
Primitivist chaoticist tendency sabotages consensus process, engages in anti-democratic, anti-communist polemics slagging everyone on the Left, seeks solidarity with Fascists, "against the government and the Left", viciously attacks anyone who criticizes, calls for destruction of all civilization and technology, couched in metaphysical rhetoric
(if you send e-mail, please specify "agitprop" in the Subject line, or it will get trashed with the spam)
"Green Anarchist" primitivist chaoticists seem to have been run out of the UK, and relocated to the US.
Does the description above sound familiar?
Now they are trying to Bogart the scene in Eugene Oregon, with their all too prolific propaganda machine, which includes an illegitimate IMC site dominated by their whack, cultish sect.
Some are challenging their right to call it IMC, since they lied about being a diverse and representative collective, and generally refuse mutual aid and cooperation with anyone but their own clique, by refusing to engage in democratic process, including consensus (since so few people agree with their analysis and tactics).
If anyone criticizes them, they "call out the dogs", to spam the critic with vicious adhominem attacks unrelated to the actual complaints. They tend to accuse anyone who dares to challenge them of being divisive, cops, "fascist stalinists", etc.,etc, which actually is exactly what the "GA"/pc crew seem to be.
Their messianic claim to be the only "True Revolutionaries", with a rhetoric steeped in mystical apocalyptic references, is particularly offensive and reminiscent of Nazi reactionary conservative calls for a return to pagan roots.
A couple of the people now organizing under this "Green Anarchist" rubric and editing their newspaper are Brits, as evidenced by their use of such terms as "whilst", etc.
Any comments, reports on your personal and organizational experience with these insidious fools, and tips for dealing with them, would be welcome. Reference to any websites, discussion lists, or other sources documenting the history of the GA crew in the UK would also be greatly appreciated.
android9@hotmail.com
(PLEASE specify agitprop in the subject line, or your message will get trashed with the spam)
There may also be some discussion of this topic on the new IMC discussion list-serve, imc-resolve, initiated for issues requiring conflict resolution.
Some previous discussion of the topic can also be found by searching the archives of imc-process, and new-imc.
"Green Anarchist" primitivist chaoticists seem to have been run out of the UK, and relocated to the US.
Does the description above sound familiar?
Now they are trying to Bogart the scene in Eugene Oregon, with their all too prolific propaganda machine, which includes an illegitimate IMC site dominated by their whack, cultish sect.
Some are challenging their right to call it IMC, since they lied about being a diverse and representative collective, and generally refuse mutual aid and cooperation with anyone but their own clique, by refusing to engage in democratic process, including consensus (since so few people agree with their analysis and tactics).
If anyone criticizes them, they "call out the dogs", to spam the critic with vicious adhominem attacks unrelated to the actual complaints. They tend to accuse anyone who dares to challenge them of being divisive, cops, "fascist stalinists", etc.,etc, which actually is exactly what the "GA"/pc crew seem to be.
Their messianic claim to be the only "True Revolutionaries", with a rhetoric steeped in mystical apocalyptic references, is particularly offensive and reminiscent of Nazi reactionary conservative calls for a return to pagan roots.
A couple of the people now organizing under this "Green Anarchist" rubric and editing their newspaper are Brits, as evidenced by their use of such terms as "whilst", etc.
Any comments, reports on your personal and organizational experience with these insidious fools, and tips for dealing with them, would be welcome. Reference to any websites, discussion lists, or other sources documenting the history of the GA crew in the UK would also be greatly appreciated.
android9@hotmail.com (PLEASE specify agitprop in the subject line, or your message will get trashed with the spam)
There may also be some discussion of this topic on the new IMC discussion list-serve, imc-resolve, initiated for issues requiring conflict resolution.
Some previous discussion of the topic can also be found by searching the archives of imc-process, and new-imc.
android9
e-mail:
android9@hotmail.com
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Primitivism - An Illusion with no future
31.05.2002 20:14
I am not sure what you are referring to in the USA. 'Green Anarchist' in the UK split in March 2001. Paul Rogers is sticking to the Primitivist dogma this correspondent above rejects, continuing to publish more of the same old alienated stuff, and appears to be backed by the UK 'Earth First Action Update' people.
In America, Saxon Wood started up the 'Green Anarchy' newspaper, based in Eugene, but was ousted from this early in 2002, and this paper now seems to be pushing a worthless Primitivist / misanthropist population reduction line, which needs to be repudiated.
I myself am publishing 'Green Anarchist' in Britain, and trying to take the magazine in a better, more open and positive politics direction.
Paul Rogers lays claim to the legacy of the 'Gandalf' Trial, claiming that the state tried to shut GA up, but "we're still here", however he has now broken, in acrimonious terms with all three of the former Gandalf prisoner - myself, Noel Molland and Saxon Wood. As such, his claim to this legacy is now empty.
I emphatically reject 'Primitivism' and have published a pamphlet against it. This is available for $3 from POB 10384 Eugene, OR 97440, USA.
Hope this clarifies things for you.
Green Anarchist, 9 Ash Avenue, Galgate, Lancaster LA2 0NP, UK
Steve Booth
e-mail:
grandlaf@lineone.net