Currents anti-industrialists

The current anti-industrialists are political currents which are characterized by critric radical from all technologies resulting from the industrial revolutions Des.

These currents exceed cleavage left-right-hand side: there indeed as well exist currents anti-industrialists of Extreme left as of the currents anti-industrialists of Extreme-right-hand side.

History

Historically, it is initially the catholic church which is opposed to the industrial revolution and so that it calls the " modernism ". Certain Protestant sects as the Amish refuse also the modern lifestyle.

The first labor movement anti-industrialist appears in England at the beginning of the 19th century: " luddites " destroy the first machines thus. Everywhere where the Industrial revolution will develop, of the movements of refusal of wage-earning, the factory and the breaking of machines will occur. As of the 19th century, anarchistic groups reject the industrial revolution. Today still, in India or China, in front of the destruction of the environment and the savings in subsistence, such movements of opposition to industrialization occur at the Paysan uprooted nery.

For the XXe century, it is however necessary to await the Années 1960 to see réémerger currents anti-industrialists. These currents appear first of all with the the United States within the movement Hippie. In France, the anti-industrial theories develop with the extreme-left around the writer Marxiste Jacques Camatte and of the Encyclopedia Of the Harmful effects (EDN).

The current the most radical anti-industrialist is represented by the theories anarchist-primitivistes of John Zerzan, which preaches a return to life the prehistoric mode of the hunters-gatherers.

In the United States, the mathematician Theodore Kaczinski published a proclamation anti-industrialist after having sent a score of parcel bombs against of the representatives of the American industrial complex.

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