period he wascalled a leftist bureaucrat by a Situationism-inspired group and later becamehimself a thorough reader of the Situationists. Years later he came in contact with the work of Fredy Perlman, DavidWatson and others. He was in a move tohave his whole past renounced: his belief in academic life, in union strugglesand leftist movements in general. The politicaltrajectory of John Zerzan is a progressive negation, a progressive renunciationof his own past, his own life. Deeplyfrustrated with his own political actions and the responses he received, hefound in primitivism a site to negate everything, and this is exactly what hehas preached, as we will see. Over the last 20 years, primitivism came to be explored with enthusiasmby Zerzan. He found places to divulgethis enthusiasm in journals from the United States such as Green Anarchy, Anarchy: AJournal of Desire Armed,and Fifth Estate. He has been part of the Green Anarchy Collective, based in Eugene, Oregon, where hecurrently lives. His major influencesinclude Anthropology and Archaeology, choosing among from many of its differentand even contradictory studies the ones that suit his theories. He was also very influenced by the Ludditesin their struggle against unemployment and their practice of machine-wrecking. His other major influences include Marxistand anarchist analysis, Western critiques of capitalism, ecological concerns,indigenous cultures, Deep Ecology; we have no space to describe all here. There is also a major influence onprimitivism, from the so-called green anarchy, which really is an overall labelfor various tendencies. It is widelyargued that primitivism is a form of green anarchy, primitivism being the moreradical wing because of its more wide-range negation of human culture ingeneral, with the exception of foragers or other few indigenous cultures. However, this assertion is contested by manygreen anarchists and primitivists, who each argue that their own current ofthought and action has little to do with the others, so they should beconsidered apart.Naturism, vegetarianism, nature cults, all have been recurrent aslifestyle, identity politics in Western societies in the 20thcentury. In the United States, the WestCoast has been the greatest harbinger of such forms of culture. In this vein, primitivism has been able toflourish. Anarchism, traditionally aworkers political movement, has been co-opted by lifestylists for quite sometime, at least since the early 20th century, in their claim forrepresenting True anarchism. Primitivists today may be found abiding to these same lifestyle choices,though sometimes they may be unrecognizable, by their partaking of all theprivileges of the American way of life. That is why here I will focus on primitivism according to John Zerzan,because to write about primitivism in the US for example, we need to take intoaccount lifestyle anarchists and their claim as primitivists, besides all othercompeting claims to primitivism in writing: that would be a huge research initself. The global justice movement (or anti-corporate globalization movement ifyou wish) has brought about a renewed interest in anarchism. For one, this has happened due to anarchistshaving been appearing sometimes in awful ways, such as the killing of anItalian anarchist in Genova, in 2001 more and more in the mediaworldwide. In the United States,particularly in the West Coast, where traditionally the environmental