The argument that the advent of capitalism brought a rise in the standard of living for …
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A Word on Civilization & Collapse
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Civilizations have come and gone over the past 6,000 years or so. Now, there’s just one—-various …
A History of Agriculture Misses the Mark
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of A History of Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis by …
Examining Zerzan
by Bob Brubaker, E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Much of primitivist theorist John Zerzan’s early work appeared in the Fifth Estate. His Cassandra-like predictions …
The Decline and Fall of Everything
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
The landscape of capitalism is a global one, existing everywhere with only minor variations. But this …
Numb and Number
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
Number surpasses all other ideas for its combination of impact and implication. Counting means imposing a …
Vagaries of the Left
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
On February 6, progressive columnist Chris Hedges wrote a fairly predictable attack on Black Bloc militancy, …
Industrialism and its discontents
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download PDF [174 KB] fe-389-19-industrialism-and-its-discontents Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley gave us a …
The Sea
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
The whole world is being objectified, but Melville reminds us of all that remains. “There you …
London Calling
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
The first half of August 2012 found my wife Alice and I in London, but not …