FE Note. The December 1976 Fifth Estate carried a critique by Charles Reeve (see “The Revolt Against Work or Fight for the Right to Be Lazy,” p. 9) of the contentions of John and Paula Zerzan that the crisis point …
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“Revolt Against Work” or the End of Leftism?
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
Anything new in the “Revolt Against Work?”
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Charles Reeve has raised a number of important questions in his critique of John Zerzan’s “Unions Against Revolution.” [See The “Revolt Against Work” or Fight for the Right to be Lazy (FE 279, December, 1976).] These questions should not be …
The “Revolt Against Work” or Fight for the Right to be Lazy
by Charles Reeve
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
During the last year the Fifth Estate has published numerous essays by John Zerzan (and others co-authored with Paula Zerzan) on the decomposition of daily life, the revolt against work, and the police role of unions. The following essay challenges …
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The Reasonable “Madness” Of Revolt
by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
In the existing world, largely governed by the logic of capital and the pathologies of accumulation, real madness is the absence of revolt.
Questions & Guidelines for Responses on Sex Work Article
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
On Page 4, Aaron Lakoff begins a discussion bearing further conversation. Letters limit: 250 words; ideas for essays should be submitted. See our contact info here. Things to consider which will expand the discussion: Can sex work be contained within …
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Riots, Revolt & the Black Bloc
by Ruhe
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
a review of I Saw Fire: Reflections on Riots, Revolt and the Black Bloc by Doug Gilbert. Institute for Experimental Freedom, 2014, $10. 204 pp. littleblackcart.com
In any language: NEVER WORK!
by Kim A. Broadie
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Never Work: Essays Against the Sale of Life. Detritus Books, 2022
The Revolt of the Animals
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
The Revolt of the Animals * An October issue of Earth News reported that a cow in the mid west United States came down with a bad case of the farts after continually eating vegetation that was gas producing. Disgusted …
Why You Hate Work
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
NEW YORK (LNS)—A Colorado University Professor thinks he has discovered the real reason millions of Americans hate their job.
Looking for Work and Finding It!
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
The Job Hunt by Alan Franklin He called me a peculiar, bungling misfit, and right away I knew things weren’t going to work out quite as well as I’d hoped. Oh, sure, I’d filled out the form all right, even …
A Generation in Revolt
by Martin Jezer
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
from Liberation News Service-Liberation magazine Tim Leary’s invitation, in the Beatles’ words, to “turn off your mind, relax and float down the stream” did not, at one time, send shock waves through the New Left. The vision of multitudes seduced …
Work and the Dreamers Against It
by Michael Desnivic
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work by Abigail Susik. Manchester University Press, 2021
Wobbly Without Work?
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
If there’s any idea promoted by the Wobblies that needs revision, it’s their concept of “One Big Union.” Even if one big union were doable, it may not be desirable. If I had to bet on it, I’d predict it …
Discussion on Anti-work
by Bob Brubaker, John Zerzan, Tim Luke
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control” in this issue [FE #309, June 19, 1982] continues John Zerzan’s work demonstrating the massive erosion of traditional American values, in this case centering on popular allegiance to the work ethic. Below is a …
How a Student Revolt Made a New World Possible
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Red Squared Montreal: A Fictional Chronicle by Norman Nawrocki. Black Rose Books, 2023
Wobblies & Work
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
This special section, announcing itself with the above headline, contains more of a critical and theoretical tension than may be immediately obvious at first reading. Imbedded in it is the difference between the clarion call proposed by Marxists to the …
Work?!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
THISTED, Denmark—Police are looking for a jobless worker who bit off the ear of a labor exchange official and left it wrapped in paper with the handwritten message: “This is your ear.” The victim was Arne Jensen, head of the …
Modern Medicine at Work
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
In attempts to find new markets in which to extract more profit, drug companies are trying to find new ways to keep workers feeling well and on the job.
Revolt of the Bats
by Alon K. Raab
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
North America, Turtle Island, taken by invaders who wage war on the world, May ants, may abalone, otters, wolves, and elk rise! and pull away their giving from the robot nations. ——Gary Snyder, Mother Earth: Her Whales The animals are …
Anarchists & Sex Work
by Aaron Lakoff
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Responses welcome; see Questions & Guidelines in this issue. Which is most consistent with anarchist ideals? Supporting sex workers as an act of solidarity or calls to stop men from consuming women’s bodies?