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I haven't seriously engaged with this yet, not claiming to be a theory green either.

Here goes: I think "civ" requires significant centralized power of some sort: hoarding the agricultural surplus leads to hiring an army and so on. Obviously when you stockpile resources, you need to counter the resentment with force.

Anti-civ models that interest me tend to just be a simple, ruthlessly antiauthoritarian way of thinking about these hoarding and lording behaviours.

Any scheming to gain leverage over others: predatory lending and usury in general, any arrangement where you've set yourself up to sit around and automatically extract wealth from others like a landlord or whatever... Not to mention stealing the land in the first place!

My model is as detailed an analysis of these types of behaviours as possible. In that sense, I'm anti-civ.