He recalls that it was during a discussion held at Icky's about the Unabomber's Manifesto that he realized what appealed most to young anarchists about the document was Ted Kaczynski's critique of the Left. He should know because he used to be a part of it. After graduating from Stanford, Zerzan worked as a welfare caseworker and lived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. Zerzan's philosophy has become the ideological foundation for Eugene's own version of a social movement that has undergone a number of incarnations since the middle of the nineteenth century when Pierre-Joseph Proudhon equated property ownership with theft. Globalization has given new life to anarchism around the world.
Anarchy is all about self-organization, about autonomous groups deciding how they want to live.
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