FIFTH ESTATE Summer 2010, Vol. 45 #2 (#383)

Issue Theme: Why & What We Believe

Our essays in this issue don’t so much investigate beliefs themselves as much as belief systems, our cognitive constructions which determine our perception of reality. Beliefs can either chain us to repressive ideas or free us with visions that go beyond dominant paradigms. The entire modern era has been one of contestation as to which belief systems will rule in societies—ones that link us to submission and acquiescence to hierarchal authority, or those which rebel against them and eliminate the categories of rulers and ruled.

Contents

• Lessons from Greece
• Who is Wilhelm Reich
• A Radicalization of Wilhelm Reich
• Reich & the Authoritarian Family
• Conspiracy or Anarchy
• The Struggle for Water Continues
• Anarchist Religion?
• God Unplugged - fiction
• Noam Chomsky: Chavez’s Clown?
• School of tyrannical Indoctrination
• Anarcho-Primitivism in Robinson Crusoe
• Cul de Sac — Is It Hopeless?
• The Politics of Carnival
• CUBA: Adios, Socialismo
• Women in White: State Violence
• LEGAL UPDATES: Marie Mason & RNC8
• INTERVIEW: GI Resistance in Iraq: Dahr Jamail
• Reading Anarchist fiction
• Co-opting Radical Symbols
• Arab Surrealism Against Islam
• REVIEW: Atheism & Surrealism
• Mick Vranich—1946-2010
• Reading Letters of Insurgents