To the Editor: The article in your last issue—”Playboy’s Tinseled Seductress”—I liked [FE #17, November 1-15, 1966]. The pointing out Playboy’s magnificent superficiality was, I thought, sound and much needed. But the conclusion!—ugh!—that the marriage institution suffers thereby—that “somehow …
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Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
Dear F.E., Just got the new issue. It’s too good to be true! Two issues in a row with relevant, well-written, hip articles specifically for women [FE #105, May 14-27, 1970]. Women being equal with men in all things except …
Warfare 1970
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
“a very great revolutionary force latent in the American people” —Peking Radio, May 9 President Nixon’s announcement of the invasion of Cambodia effectively implemented the old SDS slogan “Bring the War Home!” Millions of people joined the revolutionary struggle, striking …
Brass Boiling over Fort Wayne Exposé
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
The brass at Fort Wayne have taken their revenge for Spec. 4 Jerry Brown’s criticism of induction center medical examinations. Brown was given 36 hours to leave the post after an article appeared in the last issue of this paper …
Caution: Capitalism May Be Hazardous to Your Health (Conclusion)
by George Metefsky
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
HIP POLITICS The danger facing freeks—even many so-called “cultural revolutionaries”—is that hip culture is close to a revolutionary cultural movement, but more of a lumpen middle-class culture, deformed by capitalist society, to the extent that it even preserved class-lines between …
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Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURS. FEB. 19 FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) and This Island Earth (1957) two popular Sci-Fi epics that include travel to other worlds, ray guns, and robots. DeRoy Aud. WSU. 7 p.m. Single feature 50 cents, double …
The Sacrifice of Detroit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302A, EXTRA, July 14-16, 1980
“What really has me scared is I remember, I was ten years old during the last depression. There had never been much to worry about before. One time I asked my mother what there was for dinner. She told me, …
Cruel memories of displacement
by Sean Alan Cleary
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of Welcome Home by Clarrie and Blanche Pope. Minor Compositions 2022 When I picked up Clarrie and Blanch Pope’s Welcome Home and saw the tower block on its cover, it shook out of me a memory of watching …
An Army of Jacks
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Reprinted from Fifth Estate, #378, Summer 2008. In fairy tales, humans can possess exterior souls, things magically containing or embodying individual life force—stone, egg, ring, bird or animal, c. If the thing is destroyed, the human dies. But while the …