Looking to change my life, at the age of nineteen I decided to pack my belongings into a knapsack and hitch-hike to California. Two miraculous rides carried me through prairies, deserts and mountains into Los Angeles to a friend’s place …
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The End of Communication?
by Jesse Cohn
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
As long as we’re on the subject of endings–or rather, the rhetoric of “the end”–I’d like to intervene in the ongoing conversation about what Roger Farr recently referred to in these pages as “the end of an era,” i.e., the …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
$pliterates’ Reality To The Fifth Estate: There you go again: the $pliterates attacking TV! (See FE #292, June 19, 1978). 1. Literacy produced modern technology, including capitalism and industrialism. 1, 2, 3 = a, b, c; that’s why men invented …
The Case against Art
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
Art is always about “something hidden.” But does it help us connect with that hidden something? I think it moves us away from it.
All Isms are Wasms
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Introduction by Sunfrog As one of the more outspoken non-atheists in the FE collective, it’s fitting that one of my early memories of the project was an argument about religion. I was hanging out in the office under the auspices …
Planting the Seeds of Anarchy
by Benjamin Carson
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
In America, the last vestiges of the liberal social contract and public safety net have been virtually erased. Under George W. Bush, the gap between the rich and poor increases at an alarming rate while privatization pushes forward. While Social …
Venezuela—An Anarchist at the World Social Forum
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
Barrel-assing around hair-pin turns at 6am in a crowded bus on a road with no barriers between us and a two thousand foot drop was not the manner in which I anticipated arriving in Venezuela for the Sixth World Social …
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Carter’s Phony War Crisis
by Fifth Estate Collective, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
“I don’t want to startle you, but they mean to kill us all.” —e.e. cummings War—the word on everyone’s lips—the deadly end of the capitalist cycle of prosperity and economic collapse, appears close at hand as the major world empires …
The Original Affluent Society
by Marshall Sahlins
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
adapted from Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics
Number
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Introduction In his article on the idea of number, John Zerzan completes what appears to have become a trilogy on the origins and development of abstraction, and the accompanying alienation of humanity from nature and from the sources of …
To The New York Review of B
by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
See also: “The Machine against the Garden” (author’s introduction) in this issue, FE #321, Indian Summer, 1985. Web archive note: Numbers in the text are related to references at the end. They are not errors in numbering endnotes. While skimming …
The Sad Truth
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Slobodan Milosevic has been at The Hague for a little more than a year, the first head of state to face a war crimes tribunal since the crime of genocide was codified in the UN Charter. The former autocrat stands …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
Due to space considerations, some of the letters on these pages may have been excerpted. We ask that letter writers make their remarks as concise as possible. Pretty Bad Taste Dear FE, The Christians to the lions stuff in the …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
Illusion of Contact Greetings: The summer ’84 issue of the Fifth Estate was quite good. I’m glad that Bill Kellerman and Bill McCormick put the christian anarchist position so well [“Anarchy & Christianity: An Exchange,” FE #317, Summer 1984], and …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
IDEAS AS SERIOUS Over five different decades, though dogmas inside my head and your pages have come and gone, something seems to have largely been constant: the Fifth Estate treats ideas as serious things even worth pissing-off friends for (now …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Network Forming Dear Friends: The Primitivist Network aims to promote networking of broadly defined anarcho-primitivists. The network is not an organization and has no fixed ideological line. It is designed to act merely as a means of fostering contact between …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
ANARCHY OR CHAOS by George Woodcock Written as World War II raged around him, Woodcock’s brief history of anarchism is filled with youthful enthusiasm. Lysander Spooner, 124 pp. $9.50 THE REVOLUTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, by Raoul Vaneigem First published in …
An Anarchist in North Korea
by Pierre Garine
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK)–North Korea. The very mention of the country’s name and a blizzard of buzzwords are released: Cult of Personality, Mass starvation, Nuclear-armed, Thought Control, Defectors and Reverse-defectors.
Return of the Son of Deep Ecology
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
Introduction The letter above [“Deep Ecology as Strategic Knowledge,” FE #331, Spring, 1989] was sent to the Fifth Estate last year in response to the essay I wrote, “How Deep Is Deep Ecology? A Challenge to Radical Environmentalism” (FE #327, …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Cuban Alternative To the FE: Cuban Greens/anti-authoritarians need our aid. Orlando Polo and Mercedes Paez of Cuba’s anti-authoritarian/ecological/ anti-Militarist Green Path group have been touring the U.S. recently. Arrested many times in Cuba, they are being repressed again as Cuban …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Crude Argument Dear Fifth Estate: Generally, the Fifth Estate is great. Articles are principled, well reasoned, sometimes poetic. But the review of Noam Chomsky’s book by Pat Flanagan (see Chomsky, Freedom & Truth, FE #320, Spring 1985) ended with …
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
by Allen Ginsberg, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Two interviews with the poet on life, death, sex, poetry, Kerouac, and meditation—the first from 1991, published here for the first time; the second from the October 1969 issue of Fifth Estate.
The Unabomber and the Future of Industrial Society
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
“…If one has courage and daring without benevolence, one is like a madman wielding a sharp sword; if one is smart and swift without wisdom, one is as though riding on a fast mount but not knowing which way to …
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One Journey into and out of the Anarchist…Black!
by Ashanti Alston
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
Anarchy as a journey in the human story has a long and crazy road. In fact, it is where the Human Story begins. It is the story of human life before the advent, the institutionalization of the Muthafuckas. (Eldridge Cleaverian …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
FE note: Due to space considerations, some of the letters on these pages may have been excerpted. We ask that letter writers make their remarks as concise as possible. We will print the addresses of letter writers who request it.
A Treatise on Electronic Anarchy & the Net
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
“Every year of her life…the Net had been growing more expansive and seamless. Computers did it. Computers melted other machines, fusing them together. Television-telephone-telex. Tape recorder-VCR-laser disk. Broadcast tower linked to microwave dish linked to satellite. Phone line, cable TV, …
Rocks in my Pillow
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
a review of Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, by Allan Antliff, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Readers may note that the Ron Cobb cartoons we publish each issue often have copyright (ugh!) dates on them of up to twenty years ago. Beyond being a testimony to the wit and creativeness of the cartoonist, the drawings aptly …
Beyond Bookchin (excerpts)
by David Watson, Steve Welzer
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Introduction by Steve Welzer The text which begins on the following page is excerpted from Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology, a new title co-published in fall 1996 by Black & Red, Detroit, and Autonomedia, Brooklyn. Its author …
Katrina & the Apocalypse
by Dave Meesters
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
Part One: The Collapse What if the lights went out? What if you couldn’t get clean water to drink? What if there were no police, no schools, and no place to go if you were sick or hurt? If the …
Letters to the FE
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Fifth Estate Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions„ or giving reports of events in local areas. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
Group Sex
by Andy Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Fifth Estate Note: Since his 1991 review/essay “Operation Gender Blur” [FE #336, Spring, 1991] Sunfrog has written about radical sexuality for the Fifth Estate. Both 1992’s “Pornography and Pleasure: Beyond Capital, Beyond Patriarchy” [FE #340, Autumn 1992] and 1993’s “Queer …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
FE Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, giving reports of events in your area, or stating your opinion. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
Anarchy in San Francisco
by Bob Brubaker, Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith), Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Introduction “Without Borders,” this year’s Anarchist Conference and Festival was held in San Francisco from July 20th to 25th. Taking place at the Horace Mann Middle School in the city’s Mission District, the gathering drew somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
Language I Dear FE, Neither the simple abuse by Ratticus nor the extended commentary by George Bradford seemed to me to engage the two most basic points or arguments of “Language: Origin and Meaning” (FE #315, Winter 1984), namely that …
Swamp Fever
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
A review of the following texts: Green Apocalypse, Luther Blissett, Stewart Home, and the Neoist Alliance (London: Unpopular Books [Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS UK], 1996), £3.50 Into the 1990’s With Green Anarchist, Steve Booth (London: …
Bibliography 1995-2005
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Issues 346-369 Incomplete (ProQuest source is incomplete) PART ONE: TITLE INDEX “100th anniversary of the automobile: Kill the Car–No More Roads! ” Fifth Estate [Detroit] 1 Oct. 1996, 4. “35 Arrests at Windsor OAS Protests.” Fifth Estate [Detroit] …
The Tao of Anarchy
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
This essay originally appeared in John Clark’s now out-of-print The Anarchist Moment: Reflections on Culture, Nature and Power (Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1984) as “Master Lao and the Anarchist Prince.” John is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Environmental Studies …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Fifth Estate Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in local areas. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
Vietnam Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Vietnam Rsesource Page Fifth Estate articles in date order Dr. Norman Pollack Vietnam Fifth Estate #2, December 2-16, 1965 https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/2-december-2-16-1965/vietnam/ “Perhaps the biggest mistake many of us make when speaking about Vietnam is that we focus only on Vietnam, and …