This article, which began as a review of Frederick Turner’s inspiring work of intuitive history, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness, is now the introductory section of a book in progress treating similar and related questions—the origins of …
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Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
Escape from death in a gas chamber or a Pogrom, or incarceration in a concentration camp, may give a thoughtful and capable writer, Solzhenitsyn for example, profound insights into many of the central elements of contemporary existence, but such an …
Detroit’s jovial community
by Lorraine Perlman
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
In 1969 [when Fredy and Lorraine moved to Detroit], the “underground” newspaper the Fifth Estate addressed itself to the Detroit radical and counter-culture community. Fredy sought out the staff, and except for a brief period (when there was an attempt …
Fredy Perlman Anthology
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
The Machine and Its Discontents, a collection of writings by Fredy Perlman (1934-1985) has recently been jointly published in the U.K. by Theory and Practice and Active Distribution (theoryandpractice.org.uk and activedistribution.org). Perlman, a prolific writer of radical texts, was a …
Judith Malina (1926-2015)
by Lorraine Perlman
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
Conversations with Judith Malina rarely ended without her advocating “the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution.” Strategy to realize it always followed. Her efforts to achieve this ideal resulted in her arrest for civil disobedience in twelve different countries. // Share this …
Speaking to the Beast
by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Who, then, is the wrecker of the Biosphere? Turner points at the Western Spirit. This is the hero who pits himself against the Wilderness, who calls for a war of extermination by Spirit against Nature, Soul against Body, Technology against …
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
Industrialized nations have procured their preliminary capital by expropriating, deporting, persecuting and segregating, if not always by exterminating, people designated as legitimate prey. Kinships were broken, environments were destroyed, cultural orientations and ways were extirpated. // Share this on…
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism (excerpt)
by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Every oppressed population can become a nation, a photographic negative of the oppressor nation, a place where the former packer is the supermarket’s manager, where the former security guard is the chief of police. By applying the correct strategy, every …