To me, this seems like more "flaming". What so-called "anarchists" are you speaking of that have supposedly refused to discuss things with Sheppard? By "anarchists", do you mean yourself? I don't see how you're qualified to speak for a movement, especially when the majority of the movement are like myself anarchists or anarcho-syndicalists, and wholly reject the notion that your politics are of an anarchist nature.
>I am not a cheerleader for primitivism of any kind. I never have argued for
>primitivism nor have I for a MINUTE considered myself to be a primitivist.
Well, according to several people, not just Brian but NEFAC'ers even, you use your website as a platform to propogate primitivist viewpoints as being part of anarchism. I'm not saying you're even a primitivist, but I think when you ask questions like "why would we have cities in an anarchist society?" in a confrontational context, you are certainly advocating many of the same things that primitivists do, and I'm not surprised you would be confused for a primitivist yourself.
Paul
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