Fall 2023
Fifth Estate #414
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CONTENTS

ANARCHIST REVIEW OF BOOKS

WORKS REVIEWED

Abolish the Family
Sophie Clark

Polymath: Alex Comfort
Eric Laursen

Cover image of Pets DC: Rise of the Pets by Ramon Dines and Kit Brixton. A.B.O. Comix, 2022

Pets DC: Rise of the Pets
Ramon Dines and Kit Brixton

Resurgence!
Jonathan Leake

Letterpress Revolution
Kathy E. Ferguson

This Rancid Mill
Kyle Decker

Karl Marx Private Eye
Jim Feast

Me, Mikko, and Annikki
Tiitu Takal

Red Squared Montreal
Norman Nawrocki

Present Continuous
David Grundy

Under the Banner of King Death
David Lester and Marcus Rediker

Carmen – film
Dir: Benjamin Millepied

SDS: Students for a Democratic Society
Kirkpatrick Sale

Black Mask from Art to Action
Nadja Millner-Larsen

Rattling the Cages
Political Prisoners

On Community
Casey Plett

Eat the Rich & Other Interesting Ideas
Peter Werbe

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
Alex Prichard

Isabelle Walks With Angels: A Montreal Urban legend
Norman Nawrocki

Ohio
Sean Swain

Elite Capture
Olúfemi Táíwò

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HOW DEEP
IS DEEP ECOLOGY?

From the 1970s on the Fifth Estate has been publishing writings about the crisis of Western civilization and its industrial/technological plague.
The essay How Deep is Deep Ecology? (FE #327, Fall, 1987) began a detailed discussion of these and related issues, a conversation that is at least as relevant today as it was decades ago.
See also the related debate in Was Malthus right? (FE #328, Spring, 1988) and its continuation in Letters to the Editor.

 

Cover Image, Eat the Rich & Other Interesting Ideas: Selected essays of Peter WerbeThis selection of Peter Werbe’s essays from the pages of the Fifth Estate explore some of the basic themes the publication addresses: anarchism, capitalism, technology, civilization, racism, patriarchy, politics, culture, music, the environment, his trips to Cuba, and other subjects.
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UKRAINE CRISIS BACKGROUND
The collapse of the Soviet system and its aftermath,
analyzed in the pages of Fifth Estate:
“So, for what it is worth now, the anarchists were right about marxism a century and a half before the rest of the world witnessed the collapse of the communist mystique and the lowering of the hammer and sickle from the towers of the Kremlin…” Read more in “The Triumph of Capital” in FE No. 339, Spring 1992.

 

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VIETNAM
Anti-Vietnam War protest, April 27, 1968. Photo shows draft registration cards being burnt, one sign reads "Make Love Not War!"
The US assault and resistance to it from an anarchist/anti-authoritarian perspective: it’s all here at the Fifth Estate’s Vietnam Resource Page.

 

SPANISH REVOLUTION OF 1936-1939
Learn more about it and the important role of the anarchists….
at Fifth Estate’s Spanish Revolution Resource Page.