John Edward Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist author.
16 Facts About John Zerzan
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John Zerzan's works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like.
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John Zerzan received his bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University in 1966.
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From 1967 to 1970, John Zerzan worked as a union organizer for the Social Service Employee's Union in San Francisco.
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John Zerzan returned to school and received a master's degree in History from San Francisco State University in 1972.
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John Zerzan completed his coursework towards a PhD at the University of Southern California but dropped out in 1975 before completing his dissertation.
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In 1966, John Zerzan was arrested while performing civil disobedience at a Berkeley anti-Vietnam War march and spent two weeks in the Contra Costa County Jail.
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John Zerzan vowed after his release never again to be willingly arrested.
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John Zerzan attended events organized by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and was involved with the psychedelic drug and music scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
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John Zerzan helped organize a social worker's union, the SSEU, and was elected vice president in 1968, and president in 1969.
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John Zerzan began to question civilization in the early 80's, after having sought to confront issues around the neutrality of technology and division of labour, at the time when Fredy Perlman was making similar conclusions.
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John Zerzan saw civilization itself as the root of the problems of the world and that a hunter-gatherer form of society presented the most egalitarian model for human relations with themselves and the natural world.
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John Zerzan became more widely known during the trial of Ted Kaczynski.
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John Zerzan is an anarchist philosopher, and is broadly associated with the philosophies of anarcho-primitivism, green anarchism, anti-civilisation, post-left anarchy, neo-luddism, and in particular the critique of technology.
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John Zerzan argued that Zerzan's representation of hunter-gatherers was flawed, selective and often patronisingly racist, that his analysis was superficial, and that his practical proposals were nonsensical.
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John Zerzan responded to such claims by suggesting a gradual decrease in population size, with the possibility of people having the need to seek means of sustainability more close to nature.