Neo-Tribalism: Encyclopedia II - Neo-Tribalism - Radical tendency

Neo-Tribalism - Radical tendency

Radical neo-Tribalists, such as John Zerzan, Daniel Quinn and others associated with the New tribalists, believe that healthy tribal life can only thrive after technological civilzation has either been destroyed or severely reduced in scope. Quinn formulated the concept of "walking away," abandoning civilization as a whole and constructing a new, tribal culture on its periphery. Others, such as Derrick Jensen, tend to call for more violent action, as they believe that it is appropriate and necessary to actively accelerate or cause a collapse of civilization. Still others, such as The Tribe of Anthropik take a survivalist bent and believe that a collapse is inevitable no matter what is done or said and concentrate their efforts on surviving and forming tribal cultures in the aftermath.

In general radical neo-Tribalist groups tend to agree that the current population of humanity is unsustainable and thus a form of cultural change is fundamentally necessary, rather than simply desireable, and that the preferable, or perhaps inevitable form for society to take after this change is tribalism. The call for a revolution is intended to either accomplish or survive this change. Anarcho-Primitivism has been cited as an influence on or even a variant of radical neo-Tribalism.

Radicals interpret the "environment" of the Evolutionary Principle to be mainly physical and economic.

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