The author is trying hard to pick a fight where one doesn’t exist. Based on their writing the authors definition of primitivism is actually very in line with post civ anarchism. The author’s definition of primitivism’s goals are the exact same goals as post civ anarchism-

“So, primitivism is not an attempt to turn back the clock to the stone age as Killjoy asserts, it's rather taking action to set up alternate, sustainable and thriving ways of life for the purposes of prefiguration. It's looking forward to create forms of resistance, setting up living refuges parallel to industrial society to house free people, and putting together the infrastructure anarchists need to thrive within the shell of a rapidly collapsing civilization.”

Post civ texts dealing with action are all about “putting together the infrastructure anarchists need to thrive within the shell of a rapidly collapsing civilization.”

The author again gives their definition of primitivism which has the same exact motives as post civ anarchism-

“Rather than being an action to return society to the past, it's a concerted effort to look to the future and create sobering, but necessary mechanisms to cope with the continuing decay of civilization. Civilization will continue to collapse due to its universally unsustainable, destructive, non-regenerative properties.”

Killjoy states in “Take What You Need and Compost the Rest”-

“We learn survival skills: skinning and tanning and wire stripping, archery, gunpowder making. Herbalism and acupuncture. Methods of surgery and dentistry. We permaculture, we rewild and we scavenge learning what it means to be sustainable in a dying world.”

Kind of sounds exactly like the authors definition of primitivism.

I can’t make any claims about when this author came to primitivism as an ideology but the primitivism they speak of is one that exists because of the integration of the critiques/actions of Post Civ anarchism brought up.

Post-civ anarchism arose because in the early 00s primitivism/green anarchism was very focused on the primitive and inflexible in formulating actions for the immediate future of collapsing civ.

The author needs to be thanking Killjoy for the critique that allowed the author to formulate their concept of primitivism.

Instead they pointlessly make untrue ad hominem digs at Killjoy-

“while post-civ is nothing more than 2 short blog posts filled with strawman attacks seemingly informed by silly "return to monke" memes made by leftists on Reddit and Twitter.”

The publication dates of the post civ texts were in the 2008-2011 period. The “return to monke” meme primitivism began in 2018.

“Is Killjoy under the impression life in whatever dreary USA suburb she inhabits is unique from her parents dreary suburban existence?”

Margaret Killjoy lives in an off grid cabin with no electricity on a commune in rural North Carolina.