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I rather disagree with you here. I imagine your position is less 'I don't know', and more 'these things are unknowable', which boils down to conservative pragmatism: the chaos and complexity of social and economic reality cannot be compressed into some exhaustive set of schema (especially one whose axioms are limited to a fundamental dialectic, such as the antagonisms of bourgeois/proletariat, humanity/nature, man/woman, through whose resolution the whole of history is said to progress) but rather must be treated in particularist fashion. Challenge X should be approached independently, with an open-mind, without forcing thought into the straightjacket of 'theory' - the political approach is epistemically bottom-up, and we choose between Solutions A, B, and C, ('let's see what works') rather than the preordained, top-down D ('you see comrade, the immortal science of Dialectical Materialism/intersectional gender theory/critical race theory/Friedmanite Free Market Capitalism tells us we must decapitate the bosses/remove white men from positions of power/abolish the police/deregulate and marketise').

But this itself is fairly cohesive worldview.

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Do anarcho-primitivists have coherent ideas? Poo-flinging seems to be an impulse-based political philosophy to me.

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