Bookchin Agonistes

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Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997

a review of Murray Bookchin, Re-enchanting Humanity: A defense of the human spirit against anti-humanism, misanthropy, …

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Deserving the Best

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Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021

a review of Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields by Penelope Rosemont. City Lights Books 2020

Anarchapters

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Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003

The following essay is a slightly abridged version of a longer work that will appear in …

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The Tao of Capitalism

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Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000

Lao Tzu was the mythic “Old Sage” of ancient China. We’re not sure whether he actually …

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Surre(gion)alist Manifesto

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Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993

Dedication “Here we cast anchor in rich earth.” —Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto (1918)

The Dragons of Brno

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Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996

Hanging above the entrance way to the Town Hall of Brno, the capital of Moravia, is …

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Welcome to the Idiocene

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Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy

It has been proposed that the present era of life on earth should be called the …

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Zen Anarchy

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

What is the Sound of One Hand making a Clenched Fist? If you see a Black …

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“The Politics of the Imagination”

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Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011

[The] utopia of domination is utopia as escapism. This danger is especially real for those utopians …

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