Mark Twain, one of America’s most beloved anti-authoritarians, gave young people sound advice: “Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.”
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Anti-Authoritarian Personalities & Standard Schools
by Bruce E. Levine
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Welcome to our Spring 2000 issue. The last one we published was dated Summer 1999, so subscribers and libraries, please take note; you haven’t missed any intervening papers. This edition is numbered 354, the previous one, 353, so we are …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Avenue, just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before visiting.
Financial Advice for the Working Class: Unemployment
by John Hardin
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about unemployment. The national unemployment rate hovers at about 8.3 percent, although experts agree that the number of people outof-work far exceeds that figure.
They once were rebels
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century by Raoul Vaneigem, translation by Bill Brown. ERIS, 2023 While evangelical Protestantism has for generations overwhelmingly been a force of deep reaction …
Giving up the gun fetish
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
When small political groupings of people raise the possession of weapons to the level of military strategies and tactics, rather than the need for protecting their personal security, it usually guarantees the reverse.
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
In 1964, when almost everyone in Greenwich Village was playing an acoustic guitar and singing “folk, there was a red-haired ex-Marine named Tim Hardin who was using an electric guitar and sang a sort of jazz flavored blues. Before Hardin …
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
There are some records around that are worth taking a look at…The Sunshine Superman album by Donovan is one of the best records of its kind ever done. On this record, we hear great writing, good tunes, excellent musicianship, and …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA, telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
News & Reviews
by Allan Antliff, David Watson, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
In his foreword to Clifford Harper’s Designs for Anarchist Postage Stamps: Postage Stamps for After the Revolution, Colin Ward reminds us that some public institutions are worth saving. No radical activist could deny the immense importance of sending and receiving …
Books from the Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
NEW Gothick Institutions by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Xexoxial 2005) $10 (see the review on page 38) Garden Planet by William Kotke (AuthorHouse 2005) $11 (see the reprint on page 33)
If a Cluster Bomb could Talk
by Norman Solomon
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
< Kosovo: The Empire at War Hi! My name is CBU-871B, but let’s not be formal. A lot of my friends call me Cluster Bomb. I’ve been busy lately, doing what I’m supposed to. And, I sure appreciate the careful …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
It couldn’t happen in Detroit! That was the proud proclamation of our city’s leaders all summer long until that fateful morning of July 23. Detroit had supposedly been the nation’s leader among big cities in making civil rights progress.
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
We hope this page becomes a place where we can communicate and take care of our basic needs outside of the capitalist, consumption market.
Col. North: War Criminal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a hero? A patriot? Shit! This guy is a fascist and a war criminal! Less people than it appears are willing to stand up and salute this creep who bears great responsibility for the …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
QUESTION: I am writing to you in regard to my weight problem. I am 22, five feet six inches tall and I weigh 134 pounds. I would like to weigh 125 pounds. I have been as heavy as 145 pounds …
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
This is my first column for the Fifth Estate in a long time and I’ll probably be a little rusty, so please bear with me, OK? and I’ll try to do something useful here.
Hey Kids!
by Dave Wheeler
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Yas, free music. Free livin’. Free heads. Free Old Tarter Field for awhile at the WABX free Sunday afternoon concert.
Why be so Attached to your Penis?
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download MS Word .doc [29 kb] fe-389-13-Why-Penis “I haven’t seen anything like this before.” — Bernard Picton, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Northern Ireland Could the surreal imagination of even Karel Capek in his most bitingly satirical novel, …