In politics nothing can be taken at face value; many times what passes for an elaborately drawn political point of view is little more than a posture which conceals psychopathology. Trotskyism, a stillborn variety of marxism notable for the bizarre …
FE Author: David Watson
The New Earth First!
by David Watson, Snail Darter
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Dear Fifth Estate: As an Earth First! sympathizer and subscriber to many deep ecology principles, I read David Watson’s How Deep Is Deep Ecology? with great interest. I learned a tremendous amount from it. His criticisms were penetrating and well …
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 …
Technological Invasion
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
Note to Web version: In the print edition this article is erroneously attributed to Coquilles St. Jacques. The invasion by technological civilization of indigenous societies, be it through massive industrialization or through seemingly innocuous “microtechnologies” in the form of commodities, …
Swamp Fever (excerpts)
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
FE note. Excerpts from “Swamp Fever, Primitivism & the ‘Ideological Vortex’: Farewell to All That” first published in the Fall 1997 issue of Fifth Estate (vol. 32 #2 (Whole Number 350)). End note.
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 …
Limitations of Leftism
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The article from which this excerpt is taken, “Stopping the Industrial Hydra: Revolution Against the Megamachine,” appeared in our Winter 1990 issue. It provides analyses of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989 from the standpoint of a global …
On the road to nowhere
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
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 …
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: …
Obituary
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
In December 1997 two writers died who influenced our perspective: Rudolf Bahro and Cornelius Castoriadis, both former marxists capable of valuable insights as well as highly questionable positions. Bahro and Castoriadis were original thinkers, nevertheless, and deserve recognition as important …