Everyone who participated has now experienced the anarchist alternative to bureaucratic top down systems. We saw self-organisation at work and it worked. But the chance coalescence of their forces and the unreadiness of the police combined to achieve a historic victory, despite these weaknesses. Alongside this the author approves strongly of a back to the soil movement. She not only approves the oppressed and exploited indigenous people's of central and south America but currents which the left and Marxists, correctly, regard as reactionary.
Islamist jihads are also efforts to protect community and culture from corporate culture.
Starr condemns tourism for its ecological and cultural destructiveness and suggests that in a delinked, relocalised world people will not want to travel around, and in any case will not be welcome. US racist populists come in for positive treatment. Sure they are racists, she admits, but they are extreme localists too. Amory Starr has inadequately named the enemy. Worse she has falsely named as friends or allies some of oppressed humanity's worst enemies.