Fifth Estate Introduction It is impossible to give any credence to the statistics of disaffection and disintegration assembled here by John Zerzan and at the same time take seriously a recent survey in which the vast majority of Americans asserted …
FE Author: John Zerzan
Beginning of Time, End of Time
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
Just as today’s most obsessive notion is that of the material reality of time, self-existent time was the first lie of social life. As with nature, time did not exist before the individual became separate from it. Reification of this …
From Red Anarchism to Green Anarchy
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
From its Eat the Rich Gang incarnation in the 1970s, Fifth Estate has been an unparalleled source of new ideas. Thinkers like Fredy Perlman, Jacques Ellul, and Jacques Camatte were introduced and moved anti-authoritarian perspectives forward very significantly.
A People’s History of the United States
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
a review of Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, Harper & Row, New York, 1980, 600 pages plus index.
Techno Madness
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
We live in a technological life-world, more so by the hour. Our ecology is now all too largely technology, which has been irreversible, directional, and cumulative. The process that now characterizes civilization is a generalized technicization. Its success is measurable …
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 …
Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control” continues John Zerzan’s work demonstrating the massive erosion of traditional American values, in this case centering on popular allegiance to the work ethic. Following it [in this issue, FE #309, June 19, 1982] is …
The Refusal of Technology
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
FE Introduction: Members of the Fifth Estate staff and our friends (as well as some not so friendly) have been debating the role of technology and its function within the larger system of domination almost since the inception of our …
The Promise of the ’80s
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
Related: see Intro to Zerzan in this issue. For many, the 1970s were—and the 1980s bid fair to continue—a kind of “midnight of the century,” an arrival at the point of complete demoralization and unrelieved sadness. What follows is one …
Industrialism & Domestication
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the rise of capitalism was met by bitter and intense resistance. Its establishment was only effectuated by the imposition of the factory system as a method of social control. The result was …